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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Want multiple default directories
Message-ID: <4227@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 27 Sep 89 11:00:28 GMT
References: <1153@orbit.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <1153@orbit.UUCP>, glamdrng@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Rocky Lhotka) writes:
> program be much easier (nicer for a non-techie user) if you could just move
> the drawer icon to your hard drive or whereever and run the program, the
> program of course can get the pathname under which it was run and thereby can
> automatically find it's config and data files?

That's the way it works for the workbench. sm_Args[0] contains the name of the
program and a lock on the directory it lives in.

In many ways the workbench environment is MUCH nicer, and certainly better
documented, than the CLI.
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