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From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Can my program find its name?
Keywords: tech
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.114252.11805@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 18 Feb 91 11:42:52 GMT
References: <2133022@nuthaus.UUCP>
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
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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?

If your program has been started via shel_write, you can get your
path and name by calling shel_read.


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