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From: hans@joker.mil.ufl.edu (Hans van Oostrom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: pathname
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Date: 7 Nov 90 22:26:09 GMT
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In article <0A541F131D9F40032C@njord.fek.su.se> BLI@fek.su.se (Bengt Lindstr|m) writes:
>We are developing a communications program for windows 3.0 and needs to
>know our programs pathname at runtime. We have tried to find it in the
>environment, but twe only found the kernel's pathname there. Does anyone
>know how to get it?

There is as you probably know the variable __argv available, which is the   
processed commandline.  Standard C provides the program name as argv[0].  The
fact that in a windows program argv[0] contains kern286.exe or equal 
should be concidered to be a bug.  Since this all is parsed by windows before
you can get your hands on it, it will be very difficult to get the program
name.

By the way the variable __argv is only spelled correctly (two __ ) on page
2-16 of the guide to programming, all other references are spelled as _argv,
which of cource doesn't work.

Hans van Oostrom
hans@joker.mil.ufl.edu