Re: How to find directory where the program is?

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:31:57 -0700, achrist@easystreet.com wrote:
>> Ada.Command_Line.Command_Name. Since this is implementation-defined, 
>> it may not include the path on all targets. It does on Windows.
> 
> I seem to recall that one version, maybe a new one, of Windows does not 
> always return the full path to the current program when you ask for the 
> command line.  Are you sure that this works under all versions of 
> Windows (so far)?
> 
> On a related topic, will this work (eg using GNAT for Windows 3.14p) 
> if the current program is somewhere on the network that doesn't have 
> a drive letter mapped to it?  If so will the GNAT.Directory_Operations 
> work correctly where no drive letter is assigned?

I don't know about windows. On windows I expect to put everything in one
directory and if I can find this then I have the help files, pixmaps
etc... However on linux you put the different files in designated
directories.

By the way on windows if you want to write a config file for the current
user, how do one find the "Home directory"? I mean on NT you usually
have write protection unless administrator so I would like to write and
read the configurations from a directory (Profile ?) where the user has
write access.

Preben