Subject: selfdir released
From: [email-masked] (MUFTI)
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 15:06:32 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Hi !

I wrote a C-routine for Linux, which search the path of a started binary.
This is useful, if a binary should automatical seach it's datafiles in a 
other subdirectory via a relative path. Cause the routine follows all
filelinks, the binary can be installed everywhere, (if you don't copy it
to the destination and use a filelink ( ln(1) ) instead.
Programpackages using this method are full pathindepend and it's easy to 
spread them via NFS over a large number of workstation(-administrator)s.
 
I'm sure, the routine can also ported to other Unix's.

so long
MUFTI

=========== lsm document for selfdir =======================================

Begin3
Title:		selfdir
Version:	04.10.94
Entered-date:	05.10.94
Description:	C-routine to get the path of a started binary
                This is useful, if a binary should automatical seach 
                it's datafiles. Such programpackages are full pathindepend 
                and it's easy to spread them via NFS over a large number of 
                workstation(-administrator)s
Keywords:	selfdir  pathindependend programpackages  argv[0] PATH   
Author: 	[email-masked] (MUFTI (Dipl. Phys. J. Scheurich))
Maintained-by:	[email-masked] (MUFTI (Dipl. Phys. J. Scheurich))
Primary-site:	ftp.rus.uni-stuttgart.de /pub/unix/systems/linux/local/libs
                11kb selfdir.tgz 
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/????
                11kb selfdir.tgz 
Original-site:	
Platforms:	
Copying-policy:	GPL
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