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Article #7347Re: Where's the executable located?
From: Morgan Schweers
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 06:47
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 06:47
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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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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!mrs 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