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On Tuesday 29 August 2006 9:23 pm, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2006-08-29, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Just why does that function go out of its way to be as complicated as
> > possible?
> >
> > Are there really unix systems where you cant use getcwd (relative paths
> > in argv) and argv[0] ?
>
> (1) Where do you get argv[0] from? We used to use END_OF_MAIN().
Allegro aught to be passed argv and argc. explicitly.
> (2) getcwd gets the current directory, not the directory which contains
> the executable.
A relative path plus the current dir can be mashed together to provide the
full path.
> Peter
>
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