Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!kevin
From: kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin Klop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Programming Question
Keywords: C, programming
Message-ID: <13097@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 Jul 90 22:40:50 GMT
References: <8180@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: kevin@cbmvax (Kevin Klop)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <8180@ur-cc.UUCP> gest_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Gavin Stark) writes:
>
>Question:  Does anyone know how from within C to find the directory that a
>program was run from.. I don't mean the currect shell directory.. I want
>to find the directory where the program actually exists on the disk... Like
>if I had a file in my C directory I would want the program to get DH0:C
>even if I was in DH0:Source when I ran the program.. Any help would be 
>appreciated.
>
>
>Gavin Stark.
>gest_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu


Under OS revision 2.0, you can look in ProgDir: to access files in the same
directory as the one that your program was launched from.

If you want to do it, the code is a little bit tougher...

			-- Kevin --


Kevin Klop		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!kevin
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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