Setting the output path in windows

[dljacobson]

It has been a few years since I used FDS. I just installed
Revision : FDS-6.9.1-0-g889da6a-release
Revision Date : Sun Apr 7 17:05:06 2024 -0400
and ran an example to see if everything was working ok. The output appears to go into the "C:\Users\Username" directory instead of the old default of using the same directory as the model. Is there a way to specify the output path in when launching a job? Simple example of:
fds_local C:\Data\FDSDATA\MyModel.fds C:\Data\FDSDATA
can I specify the output directory in the same command line?

Thanks!

[rmcdermo]

The output should still go to your working directory. In the latest release, you can specify a RESULTS_DIR on DUMP, but I don't think that is available in 6.9.1. Try typing "cd" (then Enter) at the command prompt in your fds shell. What does it tell you?

[dljacobson]

I see now what happened. FDS is directing output to the current directory and not the model directory. The default directory for the FDS shell is my windows user directory (c:\Users"My Username") . When I change the current directory to the model directory it outputs data to the model directory, which is what remembered from before. So it is working as expected. Thanks for your help. Always before I navigated to the model directory and launched from there and that is why I was confused.

[drjfloyd]

When you first open a command shell on windows, you will start in your user folder (e.g. \users\username). Your working directory in FDS is the directory where you run fds not the directory where your input file located. If you want to make sure all outputs are written to a specific directory

1. First cd to that directory and then run FDS.
2. When setting CHID, include the path to the directory. Output files are just named CHID_xxx.yyy

[dljacobson]

Thanks! This is very helpful.