[Gretl-devel] set workdir

I was asked earlier: now that the gretl working directory is configurable via the GUI, is/should there be a script means of setting it? On the general principle that anything you can do via the GUI, you ought to be able to do via the command line if at all possible, the answer is "yes" to the "should" branch of the question, and now in CVS it's also "yes" to the "is" branch. However, I'm treating this as a somewhat special "set" variable. Most such variables are settable within user-defined functions, but the settings are internal to the function: when the function exits, the settings revert to what they were at the caller level. The working directory, though, seems to me a slightly different thing. I can't see any compelling reason for messing with this inside functions. So it's configured as settable only at the "top level" of command execution (console or script). set workdir /some/path/that/exists ( or, if you must, set workdir "c:\Some Path\That exists with holes" ) should work now, but not inside a function. Allin.