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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:17:46 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To: DooMWiz <DooMWiz AT TicNet DOT Com>
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Subject: Re: which function can return the directory of the .exe ?
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Hello.

DooMWiz wrote:
> AFAIK, there is no function to return the directory of an application.

	Check out this info page - type at command prompt:

	info libc alpha fnsplit

fnsplit() will give you components of the filename. Use it on argv[0] and you
should be able to get the program's path. HTH

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