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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Probably a simplistic question, but I haven't seen the answer
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.171658.18666@svc.portal.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 17:16:58 GMT
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In article <701@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
>The answer, at least, is simple.  Don't use HFS calls.  Use MFS calls.
>The folder in which the application sits is in the Poor Man's Search Path.
>
	An even easier approach, is to simply call GetVol which will give
you the name and vRefNum of the current directory.  Since it should be the
same folder as the appl on a launch w/o documents, it will give you the info
that you want.  (NOTE: There are some INITs, such as DefaultD, which allow
the user to change the default directory for appls, but any user which does
this DESERVES what they get!)

Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures