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From: cummins@d.cs.okstate.edu (John Cummins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: What path was I executed from?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.215440.10349@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 21:54:40 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
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How can my program find the path it was executed from if it's not
executed from the current directory?

for example:
  A BBS program (C:\bbs\bbs.tos) calls a door program
(C:\bbs\doors\door1\door1.tos).  I want the door program to be able to find
it's related datafiles (located in the same directory as the door1.tos file)
w/o resorting to having the user write a text file with the path in it, and
putting it in the current directory (such as C:\bbs\door1.pat containing
the path where the data files are to be found).

Seems to me this is somewhat like opening a window to a program/.rsc file,
then opening a second window, executing the program in the un-topped window
by ... holding down the right mouse button and then double clicking.
Ordinarily... any support files in the same directory as the program won't
be found.  What's the proper way to "fix" this.  As I would like the
Door software to be trivial to install.

jc
cummins@d.cs.okstate.edu