From: Eric Schwartz <eric.schwartz@...>
Date: 2003-03-29T07:02:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Platform - changing directory of caller?

"Nick" <nick.robinson@f.co.uk> writes:
> Hi Gavin, you might be right.  I am not 100% sure, though I *do* remember
> having a DOS tool that did exactly what I want to do when executed wihtin a
> DOS Shell in NT4.

You can do that in DOS (and presumably a DOS emulator running on NT4)
due to the fact that DOS stored information in a global memory area
that anybody could access if they took the time and figured out how.
No doubt the emulator emulates the memory accesses that perform this
function.

You might be able to do something like that with a C extension to
Ruby, I suppose, but you're much better off rethinking your
problem. :)

-=Eric
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