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Date:	Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:39:23 -0800
From:	Earl Chew <earl_chew AT agilent DOT com>
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Subject:	Retrieving name of executable
X-OriginalArrivalTime:	14 Jan 2005 18:39:25.0043 (UTC) FILETIME=[5EFD7C30:01C4FA68]

I think the name of the current executable is stored in myself->progname
within cygwin1.dll.

The more easily accessible __progname returns the basename of the
executable.

Is there a way for an application to obtain myself->program, other
than resorting to raw win32 call to GetModuleFileName()?

Earl


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