Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:54:31 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Benjamin D Chambers <chambersb AT juno DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: .exe name?
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote:

> How does a function, independant of the rest of the program, determine
> the name of the executable file running?

By looking at argv[0], of course:

	extern int __crt0_argc;
	extern char **__crt0_argv;

These are global variables defined in the startup code which hold the
values of `argc' and `argv' passed to your `main' function.

Note that this is *very* DJGPP-specific (I'm not sure it won't break
even in DJGPP v1.x).