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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: How to find directory where the program is?
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"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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>
> Most OS's have "environment variables". The hard part is getting the
> installer to set the appropriate environment variable.
>
Since "most OS's" are Unix or Windows, I wouldn't really see it as a
practical problem. :-) But you wouldn't want to specify something that would
be impossible to support on Macintosh or some other TBD equipment that might
do things very differently. (Allowable syntax, for example - or some unusual
steps for getting the translation)

Setting the environment variables is always going to be system dependent and
a problem for the installation procedures to solve. No really good answers
there - it would just be nice to have an Ada means of getting at them once
they are set.

MDC
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