> it does and it has been discussed multiple times on this list: > sending a command to the [shell] will start a new process (shell), run > the command and quit. like it should be, child processes do not modify > parent processes and siblings. >
Ah. This makes sense. > > i am not sure what you would like to achieve with [pwd] or [cd] > that is: if you could manage with [pwd] and [cd], why can't you do so > with the current absolute/relative path in [openpanel]? > I was just looking for a quick hack to get my patches working that try to open up a specific directory using [openpanel]. But I guess the real solution is making [openpanel]/[savepanel] relative to the patch it they live in. I don't really know how this would work for an [openpanel]/[savepanel] within an abstraction. -rich
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