Current working directory in Explorer

[rossduncan]

I am trying to execute a batch file from Explorer. I managed to get this to work but when the batch file<br>
executes the current dir is somewhere inside an NT sub-dir rather than the one where the html file is located.<br>
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Works OK in Netscape so I guess I want to know how to set the current dir in explorer.<br>
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Ross

 

[rivkah]

try the FrontPage forum

 

[Guest_imported]

If you could supply an example of your code, it would be easier to see exactly what you are talking about <br>
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[rossduncan]

To rivkah - thanks will try that forum<br>
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To jvogel<br>
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I am including a tag &lt;A HREF="install.bat"&gt; in my html page which runs my batch file install.bat.<br>
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This batch file does stuff like:<br>
<br>
cd part1<br>
install.exe<br>
<br>
or<br>
<br>
part2\install <br>
<br>
which assumes a working dir of the same as the html page.<br>
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This is because I don't know where the cd rom drive is so I can't put d:\part1\install for example.<br>
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Since I posted I found that Netscape works ok if I use explorer and click on my html page and let explorer auto load netscape, it correctly sets the CWD. If however I start netscape then load the page the CWD is the CWD of netscape.exe.<br>
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