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    18-Jul-88 10:09:18
Fm: Ray Lambert 76077,1653
To: Bill Hawes 72230,267
Thanks for the response Bill. Thanks for Aexx also while I'm at it! (despite my confusion||fustrat{\ with this problem, I still think ARexx is a great product!) I'd like to be able to know that the user is current'y logged onto RAM: when they execute this script (actually, it's vital to the script's correct operation). I still don't see how I can do that. I understood from the documentation that I could say 'call pragma('d','RAM:')' to make RAM: the current device:directory, but I can't just put that in the script becuase RAM: may NOT be current. I could be logged into DF1:Source. How can I tell where I am. From programming in other languages (such as C), I've come to expect that if I opened a file called 'TEMP.FILE' (which has NO device||directory specification, that this file would be opened in the current working directory. It appears that this is not the case, (at least with RAM:) and I don't know any other way to handle the situation, other than writing this thing in C, which would of course defeat the whole purpose of having ARexx. So what am I to do??? And of course, WHERE IS 1.3?????????? [Grin] Thanx again Bill, Ray