Setting the default drive and folder

Commands

SetPath [“drive and folder path”]

Explanation

All the commands that read and write files use the path set in the SetPath command unless you specify a different drive or folder in the other commands. For Windows, use these examples:

SetPath “My Documents\007\goldfinger\oddjob”

SetPath “C:\DataFiles\August2005\”

SetPath “\\LabServer\DDrive\PrismFiles

The last example opens a file on another computer named “LabServer”. In this case you don’t use the “C:” notation for hard drives, but rather refer to the name of the drive (“DDrive” in this example.)

On the Mac, use a format like this:

SetPath “Hard Drive:Prism 4:Data:June21”.

With Windows, if you launch Prism from a command line (via an icon, or a web link, or a Shell command), you can set the default path into the command line as follows:

Prism “c:\data\june12\”  @”c:\prism 5\screen.pzc”

If you prefer to specify the path within each individual command, you can still use the same formats as shown above.