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From: micro@imada.ou.dk (Klaus Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: What path was I executed from?
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Date: 20 Jun 91 12:27:19 GMT
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cummins@d.cs.okstate.edu (John Cummins) writes:
>How can my program find the path it was executed from if it's not
>executed from the current directory?

If it is a GEM program, you can use shel_read(), to get the full path, -
at least in TOS>=1.4.

>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)

Again if the program is a GEM program, and it was started with shel_write,
as from the desktop, you can use shel_find() to get the path of the files. 

>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.

The .rsc file will be found, as well as other files, that shel_find() gives
you the path to...

Klaus (micro@imada.ou.dk)