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    Finding the path to your executable

    I have a program that needs to, under certain circumstances, execute itself and then close. I know the path to the executable but if i put it on a different computer it would change the path and then if those circumstances arose it would not execute itself. Is there some kind of operation that you can call to get the path to the executable? Thanks.
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    Ok I thought it was something with the module file name, thanks guys.
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