Re: How to get the application path

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Jul 24, 7:07 am, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com>
wrote:
> Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org> writes:
> > Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> writes:
> >> 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,
>
> > Yes, this is the right solution.
>
> I don't think Full_Name is what you want.
>
> If you are in /home/myself, and you type foo on the command line, and it
> finds /usr/bin/foo (using your path) and runs it, and Command_Name = "foo",
> then calling Full_Name will give you /home/myself/foo, not
> /usr/bin/foo.

Yes, I forgot about that.

                        -- Adam