Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!caen!malgudi!ucunix.san.uc.edu!bowling From: bowling@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Brian D. Bowling) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Re: Self Extracting Files Message-ID: <1991Jun20.060401.20338@ucunix.san.uc.edu> Date: 20 Jun 91 06:04:01 GMT References: <1991Jun19.140345.18650@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1991Jun20.040437.11896@looking.on.ca> Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati Lines: 16 In article <1991Jun20.040437.11896@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: |Without getting too doshish here, how do you find the .exe file? DOS |doesn't tell you the name of the command you are executing. I assumed |most of these self-extractors just took the compressed codes as data that |was loaded in with the program. Is there a file descriptor sitting around |to your program or something? | |Even on Unix the first argument is not assured to be the name of the program |you ran. |-- |Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473 Look up in the PSP. The info should be stored there by DOS. Isn't DOS fun??? Brian