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Subject: Re: How to get the application path
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:14:31 -0400
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Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> writes:

> BTW: Is it possible the OP doesn't want the path to the executable,
> but rather the directory which becomes /became the wurrent directory
> of the application at startup? Isn't that what Application.startupPath
> is on Windows?

Right. In which case Ada.Directories.Current_Directory is the answer.

If you want the default directory at the start of the application,
call this then, and cache it. If you want the default directory at the
time of whatever operation you are currently doing, call it then.

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