gisdbase.c

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/*!
   \file lib/gis/gisdbase.c

   \brief GIS library - environment routines (gisdbase)

   (C) 2001-2009 by the GRASS Development Team

   This program is free software under the 
   GNU General Public License (>=v2). 
   Read the file COPYING that comes with GRASS
   for details.

   \author Original author CERL
 */

#include <grass/gis.h>

/*!
 * \brief Get name of top level database directory
 *
 * Returns the full UNIX path name of the directory which holds the
 * database locations. 
 *
 *  \return pointer to string containing the base directory
 */
const char *G_gisdbase(void)
{
    return G_getenv("GISDBASE");
}