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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> anyhow, you can force a patch to be loaded
(even if an external of the<BR>> same name exists), by giving (sufficient
parts of) its path:<BR>> pe "./abs" will load an abstraction abs.pd in
the current directory,<BR>> although the function "abs" is built into
pd<BR><BR>Hi,<BR>I cannot really follow this.When I try (in the windows-version
and Win98SE)<BR>to open a patch with the message<BR><BR>"pd open subpatch.pd
./"<BR><BR>,the subpatch is only opened when it is in the APPLICATION-directory
(i.e.<BR>/bin),but not,when it is in the same directory as the patch,which
contains<BR>the message,although this directory is is defined with
"-path".<BR>Sending the message with an absolute path,works fine.<BR>What's
wrong ?<BR><BR>Michael</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>