[Gretl-devel] dotdir

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> > On Thu, 3 May 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> > 
> 
> > 
> >> For example, this does not work (I never thought it would):
> >>
> >> ? ! python -c "f=open('@userdir\test.txt', 'w'); f.close()"
> > 
> > This must be one of those wretched backslash things; it works fine 
> > on Linux
> > 
> 
> whoops, my mistake, with a forward slash it works fine here, too!
> 
> So I am amazed...

Ah, that's good.

I just tested the new -g or --debug flag on XP and that seems to 
work nicely.  You get a console with 500 lines of scrollback.

In running on XP, I noticed that the CWD was

c:\Program Files\gretl

("set" in the gretl console shows you the value of shelldir).

I think this sort of confirms my notion that banking on a 
user-writable initial CWD may not be a good idea.  

Allin.