Getting Flex App Path?

I want to get the full path to where my Flex AIR application
has been installed and is currently running. Back in the Windows
SDK days there was a function called GetModuleFileName. How is this
done in a Flex application?
Thanks,
Steve

Alert.show(File.applicationDirectory.nativePath);

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