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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:55:54 +0200
From: Sami Tikka <sami DOT tikka AT welho DOT com>
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To: Francis Harvey <HARVEYF1 AT WESTAT DOT com>
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Subject: Re: GCC and getcwd
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Francis Harvey wrote:

> I want to find the current directory that the executable file is in,
> so I can open a text file in the same directory.  The executable
> is on the k drive, but my code doesn't return the correct path:

This is not the Unix way to do things. The Unix API does not provide any 
way for a process to find out where its executable image is located (it 
might not exist anymore!) See:
http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_2.html#SEC23

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Sami Tikka, sti AT iki DOT fi, http://www.iki.fi/sti/
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