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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: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:39:11 -0400
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Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> writes:

> Now, on Unix I'd just put a shell script wrapper in place of the executable:

Why do you limit this to "Unix"? Any operating system that supports
shells can do the same thing. 

>    MYPATH="$0"
>    MYAPP="$(which $MYPATH.bin)"  # locate the executable proper
>
>    export EXE_PATH="$MYPATH"
>
>    exec $MYAPP "$@"
>
> (untested, mind you).
>
> That would even put the full path in argv[0]. The power of shell
> script wrappers in Unix is usually underestimated.

Scratch the "in Unix", and I agree.

A Windows icon can launch a cmd shell wrapper. Or a Cygwin bash
wrapper, for that matter!

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