Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:54:22 +0300
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	Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:41:57 +0200)
Subject: Re: Zero-th argument NOT with long name!
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> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:41:57 +0200
> From: Daniel Taupin <taupind AT wanadoo DOT fr>
> > 
> > > Is there a means of getting the full long name of a program, inside its
> > > execution?
> > 
> > Yes, pass argv[0] to the library function _truename and use the result
> > it returns.
> 
> That's exactly what I wanted. Is the calling sequence
> _truename(the_argv[0] string)?

No, it's _truename(argv[0], lfn_name) where lfn_name is a string long
enough to store 260 characters.  See the docs of _truename for more
information (it's in libc.info).