Re: [MacPerl] the directory where the script is running

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 06:22:00PM -0700, Vicki Brown wrote:
> At 17:34 -0400 5/20/99, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:33:32PM -0700, Vicki Brown wrote:
> >> He didn't ask "How do I get the current directory".
> >>
> >> He asked "How do I find the directory where the script is running".
> >
> > Perhaps he meant to ask "How do I find the directory where the script
> > resides?"
> >
> > The current working directory is the directory where the script is
> >running.
> 
> As I keep saying, this is true ONLY on a Macintosh. It is almost invariably
> false on a Unix machine. I am talking portability issues (have been, all
> along).

If the current working directory is not the directory where the script is
running, then what is it exactly?  I don't think we are using these terms
in the same way.

Ronald


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