Reading !Run vars

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From: Anthony Frost
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:00

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  > What the best method of getting hold of a Application's Obey
  > dir'. I'm using Desktop C - so basically I need the path
  > that resspr etc uses to find its resources. At the mo. I'm
  > launching the file with the usual !Run, but with the ugly
  > line... 
 
Why do you need the actual path at all? Can you not just use
"<CADShell$Dir>" directly inside the application? That is what the various
res_ bits do themselves AFAIK.
 
            Anthony

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