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Re: SetDirectory

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  • Subject: [mg19247] Re: [mg19212] SetDirectory
  • From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:06:56 -0400
  • Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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The problem is that "~" is a perfectly legal directory name
under Windows.  If you had a directory called
"S:\\Mathematica\\3.0\\~", then the SetDirectory[] command
as implemented in 3.0 would have done the wrong thing.

You can achieve the effect you desire by doing:

SetDirectory[$HomeDirectory]

This works in both 3.0 and 4.0.

John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
Front End Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.


Eckhard Hennig wrote:
> 
> Hi, can anyone explain why Mathematica 4 for Windows is no longer capable of setting
> the working directory to "~"?
> 
> In[1]:= $Version
> Out[1]= "Microsoft Windows 3.0 (April 25, 1997)"
> 
> In[2]:= Directory[]
> Out[2]= "S:\\Mathematica\\3.0"
> 
> In[3]:= SetDirectory["~"]
> Out[3]= "U:\\hennig"
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> In[1]:= $Version
> Out[1]= "4.0 for Microsoft Windows (April 21, 1999)"
> 
> In[2]:= Directory[]
> Out[2]= "S:\\Mathematica\\4.0"
> 
> In[3]:= SetDirectory["~"]
> \!\(\"~\"\)."
> Out[3]= "S:\\Mathematica\\4.0"
> 
> -- Eckhard
> 
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