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Can you get the filename of a file opened with fopen?

Hi.  Is it possible to get the filename of a file that has been opened with fopen?  In other words, I have a global FILE pointer.  It gets opened in main().  Later, I want to be able to get the filename associated with it.  Can I use the file pointer to get it, or do I need to save the filename in memory?

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I can, but didn't want to do that if it wasn't necessary. The program is hefty to begin with and keeping memory allocation to a minimum is desirable.  Thanks for your info.
do you actually need the filename anyway?
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I'm trying to remove the TOP portion of the file.  So I'm reading the bottom portion of the file, saving it to a buffer, removing the original file (with unlink -- which is where the filename comes in) and writing the buffer out to a new file with the same file name.  Can you think of a more efficient way of doing it?