Application path problem in OS X standalone

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 7:52PM -0700 5/14/03, Howard Bornstein wrote:
>To set the defaultFolder, I first determine where the App lives. No
>problem in OS 9 and Windows. However, in OS X, when I determine where the
>App resides, I get some extra stuff appended to the path.
>
>OS 9: harddrive/path-info/app-directory
>OS X: harddrive/path-info/app-directory.app/Contents/MacOS

The problem is that a bundle is actually a folder (the Finder just presents
it as a file), so this is (as far as the filesystem is concerned) in fact
the folder where your application resides.

There's some info on this under "filename of stack" in the Transcript
Dictionary.

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