HELP CD A. Sloman, Nov 1986
Change Directory in POP-11 or VED
One way to change the current working directory is to assign a new
string to it. The POP-11 macro CD and the VED command <ENTER> CD provide
more convenient syntax.
-- The POP-11 command CD ----------------------------------------------
is followed by a directory name and terminated by a newline, as in:
cd foo/baz
will move to subdirectory baz of subdirectory foo of the current
directory. This is equivalent to:
'foo/baz' -> current_directory
and to
current_directory dir_>< 'foo/baz' -> current_directory
(Since 'dir_><' concatenates strings to form valid file names.)
CD is defined as a macro in POP11. It would not be possible to change the
current directory by giving a SHELL or DCL command such as
$cd foo/baz
since that would merely change the working directory of the sub-process
executing that command.
-- The VED command <ENTER> cd -----------------------------------------
can be used in VED to change the current directory, for example:
<ENTER> cd foo/baz
See also
HELP *CURRENT_DIRECTORY- active variable holding the current directory
HELP *PURGE - a file-purging facility in VED
HELP *DIFF - for comparing two files
HELP *LS - for listing the current directory when using UNIX
HELP *DIR - for listing the current directory within VED when using VMS