Wolfgang Lenerz writes:

> > Doesnt this defeat the object? We already can do this with a simple
> > Config block. The point of a Homedir is that you can always know
> > the name and path of the current job from wherever it is executed.
>
> I think we were talking about jobs executed from things which don't have a
> filename.
> Weren't we?

Sorry if I misunderstood. Executable Things that were set up using HOT_RES
and family would have access to the filename, and every instance of of the
Thing that was executed via EXEP could inherit that filename.

> > (BTW, by supplying the name too, it would allow the program to poke its

> > own binary on disk, eg for configuration purposes).
>
> OK, sure.
> I think Marcel said something similar, too- the dir name and the total
> name of the file.

Yes, theres no point in not doing so.

Per

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