LPM: Changing drives in Windows?
Richard Walker
Richard.Walker at west-server.com
Wed Dec 15 15:07:25 CST 1999
David Hempy wrote:
>
> Okay, surely this is a no-brainer, but I'm stumped. Let's say I run a perl
> program while in C:\. It needs to access some files on different drives.
> I tried:
>
> chdir "D:\db";
try
chdir "d:\\db";
>
> This did not change the program's cd to D:. I assume it acts like cd from
> the command line, which changes D:'s cd, but leaves you on C: . (or where
> ever you are.)
>
> No mention of it did I find in _Learning Perl on Win32 Systems_ nor on
> Active State's installed perl docs. `PPM search Win32` yielded nothing
> useful. Experiments like:
>
> `d:`;
>
> proved fruitless. I suspect if this line did work, it was only during the
> shell and reverted back when the program resumed.
>
> I guess I could give absolute references to all my file accesses, but
> that's a drag.
>
> Any suggestions?
> -dave
>
> --
> David Hempy
> Internet Database Administrator
> Kentucky Educational Television
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