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From: shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Where's the executable located?
Message-ID: <2613@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 01:37:49 GMT
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References: <i8Hrm1=@cs.psu.edu> <1991Jun24.133431.10280@druid.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun24.133431.10280@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>In <i8Hrm1=@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>If my program is in someone's path, how can I tell where it's located
>>so that I can get the supporting files that are needed with it?
>
>This is real easy in DOS.  argv[0] is the full pathname of the invoking
>process.  I often do something like this:
>

... assuming you are using a version of dos above 2.10, which
does not support argv[0].   People are still using it, unfortunately.


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