Re: Changing your directory

[Paul Probert]

Vic Norton wrote:
> How do I set my working directory?
>
> Say I start with
>    octave> myBaseDir = "/Volumes/VTN Junk/Octave"
> I would like to say
>    octave> chdir myBaseDir
> but that doesn't work. Octave says myBaseDir isn't a directory.
> The command
>    octave> chdir "/Volumes/VTN Junk/Octave"
> works fine, but that is not what I want. I want to set my directory from 
> the variable myBaseDir.
>
> This has got to be trivial, but I don't know how to do it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vic
This is going to make you mad...
chdir(myBaseDir)

Paul Probert



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