[Gretl-users] is there a way to use relative paths?

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 15:54:17 you wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 May 2007 15:46:06 Sven Schreiber wrote:
> > Chris schrieb:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a script that I want to run and put the output in the same
> > > directory as the script but the directory that the script is in can
> > > change. Is there a way to tell gretl to put the output in the same dir
> > > as the script?
> >
> > Have you tried something like outfile --write ./myfile.txt?
> > -sven
>
> You may also use the "shelldir" parameter, for example
>
> -------
>  set shelldir c:\archiv~1\gretl\tramo\graph\series
> # Your commands  here
> ...
>  set shelldir c:\archiv~1\gretl\
> ------

Not, sorry, I am not correct here, I think "shelldir" only affects to shell 
commands. 

But you may do this:

string mydir = c:\your directory\

and for the output filenames use @mydir\filename


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