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From: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
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Subject: Re: Argv[0] in TURBO PASCAL
Message-ID: <1148@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 18:18:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 27 18:18:36 1986
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In article <627@A60.UUCP> ron@A60.UUCP (Ron Burns) writes:
>
>Now, How do you get the equivalent of paramstr(0), or the filename of the
>program???
>


One way may be to read the command line variable directly, it resides at
CS:0 to CS:100. I have seen the program call name there when running DEBUG,
and think that you can count on the program name always being there.

I think the actual offset is 80H, but am not sure.

TP, the best thing in a bathroom.


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