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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: How to find directory where the program is?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:18:38 +0200
Date: 2002-04-26T14:18:38+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC9459E.7A49A4F7@nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnacfc16.145.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no

Preben Randhol wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:08:28 GMT, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > Furthermore, one has to ask the question "why?" (Why do you wish your
> 
> Basicly so that the program can find out where it's other files are like
> the help files and graphics etc...

Considering that many systemadministrators insist on keeping
executables, documentation and system-wide configurations in
separate locations, it is not neccessarily a good idea to
hard-code the relative or absolute locations of these files.

Jacob
-- 
Harddiske er bin�re enheder: Enten er de nye, eller ogs� er
de fyldt op.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-26 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-23 18:28 How to find directory where the program is? Preben Randhol
2002-04-23 19:10 ` Florian Weimer
2002-04-23 19:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-04-23 20:53   ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-23 21:04 ` Joachim Schr�er
2002-04-24  8:35 ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-04-24  8:43 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-04-24 10:33   ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 11:43     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-04-24 14:44       ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 15:38 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-04-24 17:44   ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 23:08   ` Nick Roberts
2002-04-25  7:28     ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-25 14:18       ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-26 16:24         ` Stephen Leake
2002-04-26 20:41           ` achrist
2002-04-26 21:31           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-29 15:38           ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-25 17:10       ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-04-25 21:11         ` Nick Roberts
2002-04-25 23:28           ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-04-26  5:57             ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-26 16:22           ` Stephen Leake
2002-04-26 17:13         ` Anders Gidenstam
2002-04-26 12:18       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2002-04-26 12:23         ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-26 12:48           ` David C. Hoos
2002-04-26 14:13             ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-27  8:18               ` Eric G. Miller
2002-04-26 13:09         ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-27 14:39           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-27 21:12             ` Nick Roberts
2002-04-29 15:52             ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-24 17:44 ` Egil Harald Hoevik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-23 19:24 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-04-23 19:56 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-04-23 22:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-23 23:28 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-04-24  0:49 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-24  2:31   ` achrist
2002-04-24 10:29     ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 15:28       ` Darren New
2002-04-24 17:43         ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24 18:33           ` Randy Brukardt
2002-04-24 21:00             ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-25 19:26               ` Randy Brukardt
2002-04-25  2:37             ` Steve Doiel
2002-04-25  7:26               ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-24  9:44 Grein, Christoph
2002-04-25 10:35 ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-04-25 19:30   ` Philippe Waroquiers
2002-04-25 22:57     ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-25 16:43 Beard, Frank [Contractor]

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