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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: How to find directory where the program is?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:53:11 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:37:22 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> If you want the location that the program is launched from, you want
> Argv(0) (in C terms). Ada makes this available in
> Ada.Command_Line.Command_Name. Since this is implementation-defined, it
> may not include the path on all targets. It does on Windows.
> 
> The program:
> 
> with Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Command_Line;
> procedure Temp is
> begin
>     Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Ada.Command_Line.Command_Name);
> end Temp;
> 
> prints:
> 
> E:\TESTING\NT\CONSOLE\TEMP.EXE


Thanks. I see that if the program is in one of the directories in the
PATH on linux then one only get: temp
so it is in effect how you called it was also mention earlier, but this is
ok for me as I then can simply check in which directory the program is
and I have it. 

Thanks!

Preben