Re: How to determine if program is running in QSHELL

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/09/2009, at 3:30 AM, Terrence Enger wrote:

> This is not a solution; just posting here to save somebody else from
> wasting time on what I thought was the obvious way.
>
> The useless idea was to examine (in C programming terminology)  
> argv[0].
> Experimentation shows that its value is plain, unadorned LIBRARY/ 
> PROGRAM
> from both calling mechanism.
>
> Hope this (in a negative way) helps.

Already aware of that but thanks. C programs running on Unix get the  
name of the link passed as arg[0]. On OS/400 they get the qualified  
name of the *PGM object regardless of the link used to invoke.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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