ExtractDriveLetter, do I need to spell it out?

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> Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2001 15:26
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> Subject: Re: [DUG]: drive path extraction
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> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:39:01 +1200, you wrote:
>
> >ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName)
> >
> >
> >If you just want to find out which drive is a CDROM, call
> GetLogicalDrives
> >or GetLogicalDriveStrings and then call GetDriveType for each drive until
> >one comes back as a CD-ROM.
> >
> >
> >
> thanx partick, but what i want is to find the path so i can run a app
> from a different directory on that drive where the orgional app is
> running
>
> ie say the app is running on e:\
> i want my app to extract that path e:\ in to a variable called drive
> so then i can go something like
>
> winexec(drive + 'apps\myapp.exe', sw_shownormal);
>
>
> ...
>    Brendon Toogood
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