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Article #8186Re: You can get argv[0] in DOS 3.x
From: John R. Levine
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1986 15:01
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1986 15:01
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In article <468@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> morearty@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Morearty) writes:
>I just discovered an undocumented feature of the more recent
>versions of DOS: it is at last possible to obtain argv[0].
>...
You can indeed get the name under which the program was invoked, but you could
have saved yourself a lot of effort by reading the DOS 3.x technical reference,
in the section on the EXEC call, in which the feature is documented.
--
John R. Levine, Javelin Software Corp., Cambridge MA +1 617 494 1400
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The opinions expressed herein are solely those of a 12-year-old hacker
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!caip!pyrnj!mirror!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: You can get argv[0] in DOS 3.x Message-ID: <239@ima.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 11:01:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ima.239 Posted: Tue Oct 7 11:01:29 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Oct-86 06:32:30 EDT References: <468@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) Organization: Javelin Software Corporation Lines: 13 Summary: RTFM