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From: vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Where oh where does my program reside??
Keywords: the and if then where who what when why how question answer
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Date: 25 Oct 89 13:43:11 GMT
References: <1407@sdcc13.ucsd.edu>
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In article <1407@sdcc13.ucsd.edu> pa1256@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jennifer's Lover) writes:
>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".

If you are running DOS 3.0 or greater, you can get this information
directly from the PSP area.  On DOS 2.x this is not possible.  One
method is to read the path, then search it in the same order as DOS
to find your program.  Much easier in DOS 3.0.

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