Exec()ing two strings, using same shell?

Sorry if I'm using the wrong words - not sure of the exact terminology. Anyway, is there a way to exec() two statments in the same shell? Example: //On win32 test machine exec("cd somedir"); print dir; //Outputs directory listing for c:\, not c:\somedir //But is there a way to get the directory listing for somedir instead? // I know I could do dir c:\someidr, but I'm doing more complex stuff than this example. -- The above message is encrypted with double rot13 encoding. Any unauthorized attempt to decrypt it will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.