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From: wolfram@cip-s06.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler)
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Subject: Re: How store extra data at the end of an executable?
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Date: 11 Apr 91 10:50:09 GMT
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warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:

>Your program should Fseek backwards from the end of the .PRG file, to the
>start of the additional data, then read it.

The problem is again that it's a real hard job for a prg to find it's
own executable. Dont rely on it being in the current directory. Dont rely
on finding the name in argv[0]. The problem in this case is primarily to
find the data in memory, since there is no reliable way to find it on the
disk.
There was a discussion in comp.lang.c about finding the executable file some
time ago, and it convinced me that this is not generally (sometimes even
not at all) possible.

Regards
Okami-san