Re: system independent access to home folder and script folder?

Peter Rockett via gnuplot-info <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:07:29 +0000
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Not totally clear of the objective here, but FWIW, you can specify a 
path using "./abc/efg/hij" (i.e. using a forward slash) on both Windows 
/and/ Unix/Linux, whereas Unix does not understand the '\' character in 
this context. So the forward slash is system independent.

P.

On 25/02/2026 18:10, Alan wrote:
> Does Gnuplot offer a system independent way to
> create directory names relative to the home folder (especially)
> and also relative to the script folder?
>
> I am aware of `system`, but that depends on the OS shell.
> I'm not a C programmer, but I believe the tricks to retrieve this
> information in a system independent way are pretty standard. (?)
>
> Thank you.
>
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