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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get the application path
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:27:39 -0700
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On Jul 23, 5:34 am, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
> Rangdalf <rangd...@hotmail.com> writes:
> > Hi,
>
> > In C# there is something like Application.startupPath. Is there a
> > package or function to get this path.
> > I can get the current directory but I need the application one.
>
> In Ada 95, Ada.Command_Line.Command_Name returns the executable name,
> which usually (not always) has the full path

I really have to question this.  I tried it using GNAT on Linux, and
(as I expected) Command_Name simply returns whatever was the first
token I entered on the shell command line---i.e. argv[0] (which is
what the Ada 95 manual hints that Command_Name should return).

Maybe things are different on Windows, but the original poster didn't
refer to any particular operating system.

; that is the application
> path.
>
> There may be a better solution in Ada 2005.

If we assume that Command_Name returns the name of some (executable)
file that may or may not be a full path name, then
Ada.Directories.Full_Name (Ada.Command_Line.Command_Name) should
return the full path, if the default directory hasn't been changed
with Ada.Directories.Set_Directory.  To extract just the directory
name, without the base name, Ada.Directories.Containing_Directory
(Ada.Directories.Full_Name (Ada.Command_Line.Command_Name)) should
work.

                      -- Adam