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From: mrs@netcom.COM (Morgan Schweers)
Subject: Re: Where's the executable located?
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.064749.17625@netcom.COM>
Organization: McAfee Associates
References: <i8Hrm1=@cs.psu.edu> <1991Jun24.133431.10280@druid.uucp>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 06:47:49 GMT

Some time ago darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) happily mumbled: 
>In <i8Hrm1=@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>If my program is in someone's path, how can I tell where it's located
>>so that I can get the supporting files that are needed with it?
>
>This is real easy in DOS.  argv[0] is the full pathname of the invoking
>process.  I often do something like this:
     This is true in operating systems other than DOS, I believe.  Unix,
for example.
> [Code removed]
>
>Now I can have a program act differently just by copying it to another
>name and creating a new config file.  Now if only DOS used file links
>like Unix I wouldn't waste disk space doing so.
>
    I'm working on it.  *evil grin*
>
>-- 
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