Date:         Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:27:03 -0700
Reply-To:     Doug <queanbeyan@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Doug <queanbeyan@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: assigning a libname to a directory
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Thanks Ace,

What I came up with was to do ad 'x dir/b/l/b  c:\strip\ >dir.txt';
and then to read in the dir.txt file, output to a dirtxt.dat file with
the tidied up result, and then to populate a list box with the info in
the dirtxt.dat file.  I will try your suggestions as it saves a fair
bit of code as well as looks less prone to error.

Cheers

Doug

Ace <b.rogers@virgin.net> wrote in message news:<j76oiu4rduq81nhk4uk19dvfs5ep1so41u@4ax.com>...
> On 10 Jul 2002 02:47:15 -0700,  queanbeyan@hotmail.com (Doug) wrote:
>
> >I have a frame that has a pushbutton (libnew) for a user to click to
> >select a directory to which a library should be mapped, however the
> >following doesn't do quite what I want...
> >
> >libnew:
> >  call execcmdi('libassign');
> >  lib1._repopulate();
> >  strip=lblib1.selecteditem;
> >return;
> >
> >This only brings up the libassign thing - and the user would need to
> >key in the libname as well as map to their directory.  I would like to
> >have libassign (or something like it) to simply ask for the path to
> >the directory for the the strip library and once selected to get SAS
> >to map the strip library to that directory.  But I am unable to find a
> >way to do that at the moment.
>
> There's a number of alternatives which could be used - I'd suggest
> using the filedialog function to prompt for the directory path,
> something like:
>
> rc = filedialog('library',path) ;
>
> Then the libname function to assign it to a name of your choice:
>
> rc = libname('YOURLIB',path) ;
>
>
> HTH