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From: pa1256@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jennifer's Lover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Where oh where does my program reside??
Keywords: the and if then where who what when why how question answer
Message-ID: <1407@sdcc13.ucsd.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 89 00:12:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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I have a question regarding how to pull some information out of DOS.

I want to know, regardless of the current directory, what directory
my program resides in.

For Example:

If I am in the directory C:\bogus and I run the program foo which
resides in the directory C:\goodstuf, (which, incidentally I can do
because C:\goodstuf is in my path statement) I want to call a function
which will return the string "C:\goodstuf\foo.exe".

The reason I want foo.exe to know where it was called from is so
that I can look in the same directory for other files which it
needs.  I know this can be done other ways, but I want to do it this
way.

This is what Word-Perfect does when it displays the message:
The system is using C:\WP50.

Can anyone give me a hand??

By the way, I am using Turbo C 2.0 and DOS 3.xx.

Thanks,
-Don Woodward

pa1256@sdcc13.ucsd.edu