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Re: How to find path to running notebook on a mac ?

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• Subject: [mg4032] Re: How to find path to running notebook on a mac ?
• From: ianc (Ian Collier)
• Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 01:45:09 -0400
• Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In article <4ne6d2$car at dragonfly.wolfram.com>,
a_kowald at chemie.fu-berlin.de (Axel Kowald) wrote:

> Hi
> I'm using Mathematica 2.2 on a mac running 7.5.1 and I have the
following problem:
> I'm starting Mma by double clicking on a notebook. How can I now find out the
> directory where that notebook lies ?
> HomeDirectory gives only the path to the Mathematica program itself, not
to the 
> notebook. 
> 
> 
> Many thanks
> 
>         Axel Kowald


You can use the "Paste File Pathname..." command which is on the 
Prepare Input submenu of the Action Menu.

When you select this a file browser opens allowing you to select 
the file in question. On selecting a file its full pathname is 
posted in at the insertion point in the current notebook. For your 
purposes you might want to delete the filename itself.

I hope this helps.

--Ian

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