Re: How to determine current home directory

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Pat,

Relative path vs Absolute Path:
A relative path is related to where you are now.  A relative path does NOT 
start with a slash.  If I type 
CD 'junk'
and my current directory is '/home/ROB' then I will now be in 
'/home/ROB/junk'.
An absolute path starts from the "root" and always begins with a slash. If 
I type 
CD '/junk'
and my current directory is '/home/ROB' then I will now be in '/junk'.
Same thing holds true for DOS under Windows, only in dos the slashes are 
backwards from the i, linux and other non proprietary systems not based on 
the old legacy Windows systems.

In DOS if you want to determine your current directory you can type in CD 
and it will echo it back like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\ROB>cd
C:\Documents and Settings\ROB

On the i if I wanted to ReTrieVe the current directory how would I do 
that?  I might start out by typing in RTV* and hitting enter.  If I did I 
might get a list which looks like this:
Command     Library     Text 
RTVAUTLE    QSYS        Retrieve Auth List Entry 
RTVBCKUP    QSYS        Retrieve Backup Options 
RTVBNDSRC   QSYS        Retrieve Binder Source 
RTVCFGSRC   QSYS        Retrieve Configuration Source 
RTVCFGSTS   QSYS        Retrieve Configuration Status 
RTVCLDSRC   QSYS        Retrieve C Locale Description 
RTVCLNUP    QSYS        Retrieve Cleanup 
RTVCLSRC    QSYS        Retrieve CL Source 
RTVCURDIR   QSYS        Retrieve Current Directory 
RTVDIRINF   QSYS        Retrieve Directory Information
...

Can you see something there which may help?

Alas, you cannot do a RTVUSRPRF and get the home directory assigned to the 
user.
See the following:
Retrieve User Information (QSYRUSRI)
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/apis/qsyrusri.htm




Rob Berendt