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Re: Export: Where is exported file?

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• Subject: [mg37817] Re: [mg37778] Export: Where is exported file?
• From: Kirk Reinholtz <kirk.reinholtz at jpl.nasa.gov>
• Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:13:36 -0500 (EST)
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You want SetDirectory[].  It's like "cd" on unix.

DGolber wrote:
> 
> When I do
> 
> Export["picture.pdf", pict]
> 
> the file picture.pdf ends up in the directory
> 
> C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\4.0
> 
> I can see how to alter this by putting the full name of the file in the
> notebook,    The "Get File Path" even makes this somewhat easy.
> 
> But is there a settable Option or Preference governing the interpretation of
> "filename" in Export[filename,data]?
> 
> In particular, I would like to be able to tell it to put the file in the
> Directory that the notebook came from.
> 
> Doe Microsoft Windows have a notion of current directory?
> Dave Golber

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  • Export: Where is exported file?
    • From: dgolber@aol.com (DGolber)