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Paul,
The home directory is only the DEFAULT current working directory. When
you use an relative path (as others have explained) it starts with
whatever your current directory happens to be... so if they happen to
have a home directory (i.e. are set up properly) the default current
directory is different, and therefore the code fails.
It is expected that users can use commands like CHGCURDIR, CHGDIR, or CD
to change their current directory at any time. This would also break
your application.
Imagine if an application like Microsoft Word were to stop working as
soon as a user changes which folder a document is saved into. You
wouldn't be too happy with Microsoft, would you?
Same here. Your application is broken. The fact that this has worked
since 2002 only indicates that your users don't understand how to use
the IFS, and aren't really using it.
-SK
On 3/20/18 2:21 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:
Thank you everyone for all the tips.
We have other processes that might be depending on the home directory being there.
I'm reluctant to change to '/' for all users.
The code is from a contractor from 2002.
The entire app is scheduled to be rewritten.
Paul
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