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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: programming
Date: 5 Jul 1996 14:17:44 -0500
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Edwin Burley (khan@vnet.net) wrote:
: I am trying to learn how-to-do stuff differently...

[stuff deleted]

: What I am looking for is how do I call   cd    in the program    

: so then    /bin     will be placed in in front of the

: cd   and goto  it.......does this make since.....

No, but it makes a certain amount of sense.

"man chdir"

is what you're looking for.  But remember, the current directory is local
to a process.  If you write a program that calls chdir(), when the program
exits you'll be right back in the directory you started in.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....