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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources,net.unix
Subject: Re: Wanted: file pointer to file name routine
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Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 09:56:45 EST
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> I would like a routine that returns a file's full path name
> given either the file discriptor or the file pointer...
> 		Doug Freyburger
> -- 
> Doug Freyburger		DOUG@JPL-VLSI,
> JPL Mail Stop 23	escher!doug, escher!teleop!doug
> Pasadena, CA 91109	etc.

There's no way to do that.  A file can have more than one name.  Which
one would you like?
-- 
Larry Campbell                                 The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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