From 31df5c204212fa6f934a79c5c8dc1ed07c15fd0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junzi Sun <junzisun@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:39:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix dump path

---
 pyModeS/streamer/modeslive | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyModeS/streamer/modeslive b/pyModeS/streamer/modeslive
index 50bbd48..06664cf 100755
--- a/pyModeS/streamer/modeslive
+++ b/pyModeS/streamer/modeslive
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ UNCERTAINTY = args.uncertainty
 DUMPTO = args.dumpto
 
 if DUMPTO is not None:
-    DUMPTO = os.getcwd() + '/' + DUMPTO
+    # append to current folder except root is given
+    if DUMPTO[0] != '/':
+        DUMPTO = os.getcwd() + '/' + DUMPTO
+
     if not os.path.isdir(DUMPTO):
         print('Error: dump folder (%s) does not exist' % DUMPTO)
         sys.exit(1)