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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to get process path?
Message-ID: <13480@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Aug 90 01:56:12 GMT
References: <1990Aug2.185051.9324@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Aug2.185051.9324@midway.uchicago.edu> mike@delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Mike Rimkus) writes:
>I'm writing a program that needs to run another program in the same directory,
>whatever directory that may be.  Thus the first program needs to know for
>certain the path by which it was executed.

You better tell it when you execute it, then.