Subj : Re: getting at FileName from *File
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder@glue.ch (Thomas Maeder [TeamB])
Date : Wed Jul 23 2003 07:10 pm

"Billly Pig" <Billy@sty.com> writes:

> Within a function that receives a
> *File parameter, is it possible to get the name of the associated file on
> Windows?

No. One reason is that there are FILE * with no file name at all, e.g. stdin,
stdout and stderr, the result of a call to popen() etc.


> I don't have access to the calling routine, so I can't just do the obvious
> and pass the filenname as a parameter too.

Why would you want to know the filename?

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