Re: How to determine at runtime where the application is launched from

"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%230hqsm40FHA.2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Norm Dresner wrote: 
"hereafter" <hereafter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BF905576-638F-461A-94F1-76759BBBFAC8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I notice some .exe program under \WIndows folder
when i click on them, the display a dialog shows the version info
and when i type their names in a command prompt, they display the
credit within the command prompt

Is there a way to determine where the application is launched? from
console
or
double click LButton?


1.  An icon on the desktop can provide a program with optional
command-line information and switches to alter it's behavior.


Yes, an icon could.  But if you just launch it from explorer by
double-clicking on the exe file?

2.  A trick that's common in Unix is to have a program do several
different things depending on the name by which it's executed  (mv --
cp  for example).  Since the program's execution name is argv[0],
it's readily available.


Yes, but if there were two executables with different names, they
wouldn't be the same program, would they?

Ah, but links can have different names from the targets they point to, can't they?

   Norm

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