Wanted: file pointer to file name routine

Larry Campbell campbell at maynard.UUCP
Mon Feb 17 00:56:45 AEST 1986


> I would like a routine that returns a file's full path name
> given either the file discriptor or the file pointer...
> 		Doug Freyburger
> -- 
> Doug Freyburger		DOUG at JPL-VLSI,
> JPL Mail Stop 23	escher!doug, escher!teleop!doug
> Pasadena, CA 91109	etc.

There's no way to do that.  A file can have more than one name.  Which
one would you like?
-- 
Larry Campbell                                 The Boston Software Works, Inc.
ARPA: maynard.UUCP:campbell at harvard.ARPA       120 Fulton Street
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