From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-13T23:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: find executables on windows

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Kroeger Simon (ext) wrote:

> MSDN, CreateProcess:
>
> ...If the filename does not contain a directory path, the system
> searches
> for the executable file in the following sequence:
>
> - The directory from which the application loaded.
>
> - The current directory for the parent process.
>
> - Windows 95 and Windows 98: The Windows system directory.
>   Use theGetSystemDirectory function to get the path of this directory.
>
> - Windows NT: The 32-bit Windows system directory.
>   Use the GetSystemDirectory function to get the path of this
> directory.
>   The name of this directory is SYSTEM32.
>
> - Windows NT: The 16-bit Windows system directory.
>   There is no Win32 function that obtains the path of this directory,
>   but it is searched. The name of this directory is SYSTEM.
>
> - The Windows directory. Use theGetWindowsDirectory function to get the
>
>   path of this directory.
>
> - The directories that are listed in the PATH environment variable.
>
> erm, yes, that's it! :)

i think i'll settle for PATH ;-)

-a
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