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This is part of Family API which allow to create dual-os version of program runs under OS/2 and DOS

Note: This is legacy API call. It is recommended to use 32-bit equivalent

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DosChDir

This call defines the current directory for the requesting process.

Syntax

DosChDir (DirName, Reserved)

Parameters

Return Code

rc (USHORT) - return

Return code descriptions are:

Remarks

The directory path is not changed if any member of the path does not exist. The current directory changes only for the requesting process.

For FSDs, the case of the current directory is set according to the DirName passed in, not according to the case of the directories on disk. For example, if the directory “c:\bin” is created and DosChDir is called with DirName “c:\bin”, the current directory returned by DosQCurDir will be “c:\bin”.

Programs running without the NEWFILES bit set are allowed to DosChDir to a non-8.3 filename format directory.

DosQSysInfo must be used by an application to determine the maximum path length supported by OS/2. The returned value should be used to dynamically allocate buffers that are to be used to store paths.

Example Code

C Binding

#define INCL_DOSFILEMGR
 
USHORT  rc = DosChDir(DirName, Reserved);
 
PSZ              DirName;       /* Directory path name */
ULONG            0;             /* Reserved (must be zero) */
 
USHORT           rc;            /* return code */

This example changes directories to \os2\system.

#define INCL_DOSFILEMGR
 
#define PATH "\\os2\\system"
#define RESERVED 0L
 
USHORT rc;
 
rc = DosChDir(PATH, RESERVED);

MASM Binding

EXTRN  DosChDir:FAR
INCL_DOSFILEMGR     EQU 1
 
PUSH@  ASCIIZ  DirName       ;Directory path name string
PUSH   DWORD   0             ;Reserved (must be zero)
CALL   DosChDir

Returns WORD

Note

Text based on http://www.edm2.com/index.php/DosChDir