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Re: Subject: Calling one notebook into another

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• Subject: [mg52319] Re: Subject: [mg52319] Calling one notebook into another
• From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
• Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:28:57 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 11/21/04 at 8:14 PM, drbob at bigfoot.com (DrBob) wrote:

>I tried your code in version 5.1, and it didn't like the
>SetDirectory command:

>SetDirectory["~/Desktop"];

>SetDirectory::"cdir" Cannot set current directory to `1`.

>Here's my home directory:

>$HomeDirectory

>C:\Documents and Settings\bobby

>and here's a command that DOES work:

>SetDirectory["C:\\Documents and Settings\\bobby\\Desktop"];

>Is this a bug?

I doubt it. On unix systems (including Mac OS X) the "~" character expands to be your home directory. I suspect Mathematica relies on the operating system to expand the "~" character in this manner. That would mean this would not work for users on Windows.
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