how to chdir permanently

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011, Gary Kline wrote:
>if i put in a
>
>  chdir(VBCPATH) before my speech stuff, how long will the chdir() 
>  let me remain in that  directory?  my directory for my tts gtk
>  application is hidden  away in ~/.VBC for now, and the binary
>  has to be in that directory.  all of the text files  are
>  there.  

On any *nix system the chdir is in effect for the duration of the
script that did it, and for any processes spawned by that script.

Bill
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