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From: gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Contents of argv[0]
Message-ID: <1935@ifi.uio.no>
Date: 19 Aug 89 13:58:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: gandalf@csli.Stanford.EDU's message of 15 Aug 89 18:10:43 GMT

gandalf@csli.Stanford.EDU (Juergen Wagner) wrote:
> This effectively means that in general, argv[0] cannot
> be treated as a reliable source for the path name! [RTFM]

Is there anything that can be relied upon for this?
I want to know which directory the executable file resided in.

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