Hi all,

I have an application that is written in FoxPro DOS 2.6 that I am refurbishing to run under VFP 7 Windows 98 & Win2K.

In the old DOS application there were numerous calls to other DOS applications preceeded by commands like:

cd f:\applicat\testfox

to change the default DOS directory.

In the new application, changing the default directory has no effect (I assume) because there is no *one* DOS session.

So the old code (when run in the new application) changes the default directory then goes away then the next line runs a DOS application in a new DOS session which expects the previously set default DOS directory -but the directory previously set was set in a different session. (At least I think that is what is happening.)

So the question is:

Is there a way for me to set a "global default" DOS directory under Win98 & Win2K that will work with all subsequently called DOS sessions? Or do I need to wrap my calls to the various DOS applications that expect a certain
"default" DOS directory setting in a batch file that first sets the default DOS directory then runs the application then goes away?

Obviously I'm looking for a cheat here. I don't want to have to write a couple of dozen batch files (if I can help it).

Thanks in advance for any help or direction you can give me.

Hugh