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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian Reschke)
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Subject: Re:  Sozobon fix for Gemini
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Date: 10 Apr 90 07:05:48 GMT
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In article <5618.261c75e0@uwovax.uwo.ca> Eric Smith writes:
> An even better solution: fix the sozobon library to use the Atari-standard
> ARGV= method of passing parameters in the environment, and persuade
> the authors of Gemini to adopt this as well (Gulam and a lot of other
> command shells already do). xArgs had some technical merits, but also some
> problems (all xArgs programs will break when/if any sort of virtual memory
> or swapping becomes available for the ST). Since there's now an official
> way of passing extended argument lists, we might as well all use it.
Gemini 1.1 already does this.

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