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Preben Randhol wrote:
> How can one in Ada95 find out from which directory the Ada program is
> stored in.  I mean I need to find out if my program is stored in
> /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin or some other directory.

There is no a priori reason for this to even be possible. Your Ada
program could be loaded in PROM on your toaster, and even in UNIX,
the same executable file could have many links to it in different
directories, with different names.