How to get path of main stack from external ?

[Klaus Major]

Strast wuitje, Ruslan,

> Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>
>> And can somebody point me the correct Transcript command to get  
>> path of main
>> stack ?
>>
>
> It's the filename property:
>
>   get the filename of stack MyMainStack
>
> If you ever need to get the filename of a stack and you don't know  
> if it's a mainstack or a substack just add the "effective" keyword:
>
>   get the effective fileName of stack MySubStack

and then you can simply strip off the filename to get the needed  
directory:

...
put the filename of stack MyMainStack into targetdir
set the itemdelimiter to "/"
delete item -1 of targetdir
...

Now targetdir = the directory you are looking for :-)

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Klaus Major
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P.S.
Yes, i know, my russian is lousy :-D