SH> Under FPC/Linux, does anybody know how to get the directory the program
SH> binary file resides in?

SH>   S := ParamStr(0);

under dos that function isn't guaranteed to give an exact answer....
sometimes you'll get a relative answer... eg: '..\'

For Iinux, paramstr(0) will be without a directory unless one was specified on
the command-line. (and and that could point to a link and not the actual
file...)

Anyway why do you need this feature?  libraries go in /lib... global config
files in /etc and personal ones in ~ (these ones usually have filenames
starting with '.')  if you need a place to stick some text files you could
make a subdirectory of /etc, or put it in the config file in /etc ...

If you really have to know where the executable is you could take check
paramstr(0) for a dirtectory and if that fails try searching through all the
directories in getenv('PATH') for files called prarmstr(0) that are
executable by the user, there may be some procedures/functions that make this
easy...
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