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From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: How do I get the program name (argv[0])?
Message-ID: <305@atari.UUcp>
Date: Wed, 28-May-86 14:38:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 28 14:38:22 1986
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> Does anyone know any way to read the name of an application or accessory
> once it has been started (argv[0] to traditional `C' programmers).

No.  Not possible unless you have cooperation from the process that
Pexec()'d your application.  GEMDOS does not pass or preserve the name
of the program that was loaded.  The desktop does not cooperate.

This misfeature is a result of the way commandline arguments are
passed to an application.  It's been a problem --- in the CP/M and
MSDOS model operating systems --- since the first CP/M-80 C compilers
came out....

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-Landon Dyer, Atari Corp.		{lll-lcc,lll-crg!vecpyr}!atari!dyer

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