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From: jbeard@ntvax.uucp (Jeff Beardsley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Where oh where does my program reside??
Keywords: the and if then where who what when why how question answer
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.183738.15420@ntvax.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 89 18:37:38 GMT
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In article <1407@sdcc13.ucsd.edu> pa1256@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jennifer's Lover) writes:
>I have a question regarding how to pull some information out of DOS.
>
>I want to know, regardless of the current directory, what directory
>my program resides in.
>

Well, since you are using C, this is no problem.
The following code fragment will print out your program's pathname:

main(argc,argv)
int argc; char **argv;
{
	printf(argv[0]);
}

This will be a Full pathname, in the normal form:
"C:\USR\JBEARD\TEST.EXE", etc, 

Since you are in DOS 3.x this is usable, previous versions would print
"C:TEST.EXE".

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