Re: [ProgSoc] Start me up

[Matt <matt@nospam.telesales.zip.com.au>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 11:35:53AM +1000, Mike Abdow wrote:

> Is there a way of specifying a startup directory when opening up,
> say, an xterm window? It always defaults to the user's home
> directory. At first I thought of putting a '-e cd /foo' in the xterm
> command line, but obviously this doesn't work. Couldn't find
> anything useful in the other command line options either (did I
> overlook an option?).


(cd /foo;xterm&)

this is fairly standard for unix, why build functionality into a
program when it is already there in another program.

	matt
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