RE: SetDirectory Problems
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg17054] RE: [mg16943] SetDirectory Problems
- From: "Jean-Marie THOMAS" <jmthomas at agat.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 02:12:03 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Mathematica provides a uniform way to handle file structure over different operating systems, but cannot be independant of your specific operating system. Then a good practice suggests to use functions returning file names or directory names: FileNames,DirectoryName,FileType (can be used to treat separately files and directories), Directory, etc. Hope this helps, **************************************** Jean-Marie THOMAS mailto:jmthomas at agat.net Conseil et Audit en Ingenierie de Calcul Strasbourg, France http://www.agat.net **************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Jan Engmann [mailto:je224 at cam.ac.uk] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg17054] [mg16943] SetDirectory Problems When I'm using the SetDirectory command, typing a directory name sometimes results in unexpected response, e.g. backspacing several characters. This does not only happen when trying to type an invalid directory name, so I had to use quite silly methods, for instance move the files to "acceptable" directories. It seems to occur especially when using directories which include "0" (zero) characters. Has anyone had similar trouble and knows how to solve this? Jan