Finding full pathname of Windows Executable

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From: Eric Bergman-Terrell
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1991 16:47

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How can a Windows program figure out the pathname of its .exe file?

Why I ask:  I have a Windows program that needs to load a data file that
is stored in the same directory with the .exe.  I don't want to hard-code
the data file's filename...

In MS-DOS, a program could get this information by looking at argv[0].  How
is it accomplished in Windows?


ADV thanks ANCE


Terrell

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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
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Subject: Finding full pathname of Windows Executable
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.164713.26980@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 91 16:47:13 GMT
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Organization: Nyx -- Public access Unix, U. of Denver, dept. of Math/CS
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