Re: How to find directory where the program is?

["David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Hi Preben,

Perhaps you should consider putting a hidden file in the user's
home directory.

Many programs use this technique, not only for user preferences
but for the location of files.

By way of example, here are some hidden files in my home directory
on a Linux machine, showing that the practice is widespread.

.lessrc .acrorc .cvsrc .gtkrc .screenrc .kderc .bashrc .dmallocrc
.wmrc .tkdiffrc .tcshrc .emacs-places .emacs .emacs_case_exceptions
.history .emacs.desktop

----- Original Message -----
From: "Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: How to find directory where the program is?


> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:18:38 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I know that, but if you install the program in /usr/bin then I expect
> (on Linux) to find the graphics and help in /usr/share/programname/ if
> you put it in /usr/local/bin then /usr/local/share/programname/ etc....
>
> Preben
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