Re: How to find directory where the program is?

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

As an ex-VMS user and VMS bigot, I understand and concur. :-) However, I
think I was talking about something a little more general than finding the
location of the executable image. My understanding was that the reason for
wanting the name of the image was to find a directory path that would allow
for then finding application (or possibly user) specific files, etc. Sort of
a "persistence of information between program executions" problem. That's
the sort of thing that was quite commonly dealt with by logical names (or
environment variables or registry entries, etc...) My thinking was that it
would be nice if Ada provided a standard mechanism for remembering this kind
of thing (directory locations for application or user specific files, etc.)
Could Ada create a package for its own sort of "registry" or "logical names"
such that it could reasonably be implemented on most operating systems? I'm
not sure there is a good, portable abstraction that might be implemented on
most systems...

Could Ada invent its own "registry" and somehow store it in the executable
image so it didn't have to rely on the OS? It would likely be a problem for
things like embedded computers, but might be one of those "If an
implementation can and wishes to support it, this is how it looks..."
annexes.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> 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.