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Re: Newbie Qn: Change Directory

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• Subject: [mg105513] Re: [mg105505] Newbie Qn: Change Directory
• From: "Jimmy S. Lim" <onward.pm at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 01:30:33 -0500 (EST)
• References: <200912051035.FAA08879@smc.vnet.net>

Thanks everyone for your assistance and suggestions!

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>wrote:

> Nearly everything!
>
> First, from your use of the backslash as a path name separator, it seems
> you're running on Windows.  Then the format to begin an absolute path is
> "d:\" and not "d\:".
>
> Second, the argument to SetDirectory should be a string.
>
> Third, the backslash character is interpreted as an escape, so either
> double it to indicate an actual backslash or, better yet, use the
> "universal" file-name separator /.
>
> Thus either of:
>
>
>  SetDirectory["d:\\Jim Directory\\Mathematica"]
>
>  SetDirectory["d:/Jim Directory/Mathematica"]
>
> Jimmy S. Lim wrote:
>
>>
>> I tried changing the new default directory by typing:
>> SetDirectory[d \ : Jim Directory\Mathematica]
>>
>> and its not working. What did i type wrong? Thanks.
>>
>
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>



-- 
cheers!
Jim

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    • From: "Jimmy S. Lim" <onward.pm@gmail.com>