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From: RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET (Aengus Lawlor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PATH for Windows applications
Message-ID: <91164.173755RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET>
Date: 13 Jun 91 22:37:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.095516.86840@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
 <10816@plains.NoDak.edu>
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
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In article <10816@plains.NoDak.edu>, coffman@plains.NoDak.edu (Clark Coffman)
says:
>
>  You know, that would work, but I've always wondered why professional
>programmers don't use argv[0] to find the path! I'm what my friends call
>a sportsman programmer in C and I use argv[0] to find where my programs
>have been started up (so they can find their configuration files).  Why
>don't others use this?  It returns the full path, including the drive,
>to where ever the user has stored your program.  I guess I'm assuming that
>Pascal and other languages have a similar feature?
>
Mainly because earlier versions of DOS (2.x, and possibly 3.0 ?) didn't return
argv[0]. Some people are still running those versions.

--
RBYAML@ROHMHAAS.COM                    Aengus Lawlor
RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET                   (who used to be ALAWLOR@DIT.IE)
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"Certainly, sir. Would that be Dry or Sparkling?"