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>In article <13119@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>In article <8180@ur-cc.UUCP> gest_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Gavin Stark) writes:
>>
>>Question:  Does anyone know how from within C to find the directory that a
>>program was run from.. I don't mean the currect shell directory.. I want
>>to find the directory where the program actually exists on the disk... Like
>>if I had a file in my C directory I would want the program to get DH0:C
>>even if I was in DH0:Source when I ran the program.. Any help would be 
>>appreciated.
>
>	It's easy under 2.0:  GetProgramDir() returns a lock on the directory,
>or references things via PROGDIR:.  Under 1.3, it's harder.  You have to try
>to second-guess the shell (search the path, etc), and that doesn't help if
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>the command-line specified a directory.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Not much of a consolation, but:  Don't all C's return the entire string
(i.e., the command part of the command-line) in arg[0]?  I haven't
tried this with Aztec 5.0, but on VAX C it appears to (on a VMS
machine).  If you checked this first and found a path, you wouldn't
even have to do your second(third ?)-guess routine. ;-)


>
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