Re: How to find directory where the program is?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Very true - but still you need *some* method for an executable to find
related files. Hard coding is a bad thing. Things like logical names or
environment variables are going to be system dependent. You could ask the
user to enter a path name somewhere in the program (command line parameter,
text field on the main screen, etc.) but how are you going to remember the
path name between executions without resorting to a registry entry,
environment variable, etc., all of which are going to be system dependent?

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?

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message
news:3CC9459E.7A49A4F7@nbi.dk...
>
> 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.
>