To:	olly AT mantis DOT co DOT uk (Olly Betts)
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Getting a path in argv[0]
Date:	Fri, 02 Dec 94 13:08:34 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> DJGPP seems to just give the leaf-name of the executable in argv[0],
> rather than the executable path as DOS compilers seem to.  I suppose
> this follows the UNIX style, but I have a program which uses the path
> on argv[0] to find support files.

Are you sure this is always the case?  At my place, I have the full
path, as expected.  And under DOS, this shouldn't depend on the shell
you are using, as it is under Unix, right?  But all the same: which
shell do you use?

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