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From: nut@nuthaus.UUCP (Adam G. Tilghman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Can my program find its name?
Keywords: tech
Message-ID: <2133022@nuthaus.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 91 10:19:34 GMT
Organization: Eleusesthai BBS, So. San Francisco
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X-Version: Rodney's UUCP modules 05/09/90 V1.15


  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?

   -- Adam
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