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From: warwick@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
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Subject: Re: Can my program find its name?
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Date: 17 Feb 91 22:37:14 GMT
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In <2133022@nuthaus.UUCP> nut@nuthaus.UUCP (Adam G. Tilghman) writes:


>  I am writing a program which needs to find out its own name -
>I know this is possible, but how is it done?  The only way that
>I can think of is back-tracing into the parent program to find the 
>Pexec() parameters, but this doesn't ring very kosher to me :-)
>Is there a better way?

The shell_read() call returns the info you are looking for.  Watch out
though.  Apparently, some Shells (command line interpreters) do not set
things up properly - it will definately work from the desktop though.

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