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From: NEWCOMER@DICKINSN.BITNET ("Newcomer, Don")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Location Of a Running Program...
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Date: 15 Jul 88 18:00:31 GMT
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CS117030@YUSOL.BITNET writes:

>        I would like to know if there is any way that you could find
>     the location of a running program on the disk, because i would
>     like to put this code in a high level language program, and when
>     I run the program, it should give me the location where the
>     actual program is been stored, regardless of my default location.

Using SYS$GETJPI and the item JPI$_IMAGNAME will give you the full name of the
image being executed by any process.  That should do just what you want.

                                        Don Newcomer
                                        Dickinson College
                                        Carlisle PA  USA
                                        NEWCOMER@DICKINSN.BITNET