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From: allbery@nc386.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: face2ps
Message-ID: <1989Aug4.221012.20430@nc386.uucp>
Date: 4 Aug 89 22:10:12 GMT
References: <17286@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1989Aug2.132936.8919@IDA.ORG>
Sender: allbery@nc386.uucp (Brandon S. Allbery)
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In-reply-to: roskos@IDA.ORG (Eric Roskos)

In article <1989Aug2.132936.8919@IDA.ORG>, roskos@IDA (Eric Roskos) writes:
+---------------
| Notice he remembered that Unix uses forward slashes instead of backwards
| slashes, but forgot that it doesn't always stick in the full path name
| for argv[0] the way DOS (or, more accurately, that C compiler) does. 
+---------------

MiSDOS is right.  The full name of the program (complete with drive and path)
is stashed after the end of the environment by MiSDOS 3.x/4.x; the compiler
simply points argv[0] to it.  Note that the command line passed to a program
under DOS has the command name stripped, so under MiSDOS 2.x one has *no* way
to determine the name of the program.

And people wonder why I call it Mis-DOS!

++Brandon
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