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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: How to find directory where the program is?
Date: 27 Apr 2002 09:39:03 -0500
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In article <aabjie$pru$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> Most OS's have some means for keeping that kind of thing around somewhere,
> just that it isn't going to be a "portable" answer. Its the sort of thing
> that Ada has been very good at hiding in the past - maybe that's something
> that needs to be in an OS Interface package?

But sometimes there will not be an answer, if you are expecting a
disk location.  On VMS the program you are running might be on
magnetic tape.