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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: How to find directory where the program is?
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> I wonder if it is possible to specify a portable interface for doing this
> sort of thing that could be supported in some manner on most popular
> operating systems? Would most OS's provide some version of a logical name
> such that defining a "Translate_Logical_Name" operation would yield things
> like files/directories?

Most OS's have "environment variables". The hard part is getting the
installer to set the appropriate environment variable.

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