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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Programming Question
Keywords: C, programming
Message-ID: <13119@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 01:50:13 GMT
References: <8180@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup)
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.

	It's easy under 2.0:  GetProgramDir() returns a lock on the directory,
or references things via PROGDIR:.  Under 1.3, it's harder.  You have to try
to second-guess the shell (search the path, etc), and that doesn't help if
the command-line specified a directory.

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