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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: main() - argc,argv
Message-ID: <11725@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Dec 89 01:10:40 GMT
References: <1093@nsscb.UUCP> <1989Nov30.204932.15705@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1989Nov30.204932.15705@chinet.chi.il.us> john@admctr.chi.il.us (John Mundt) writes:
>In article <1093@nsscb.UUCP> nrg@nsscb.UUCP (G.Narotham Reddy) writes:
>>I would like to know what happens if main() is passed more than two arguments?
>It is passed three by convention.

NO, it isn't, except in some recent UNIX implementations.
(And, as was previously explained, that was a mistake.)