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From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: slash and win
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.223842.15844@mks.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 22:38:42 GMT
Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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There seems to be a problem with the way that Microsoft Windows
version 3 handles its startup command-line.  Invoking it with the full
pathname using backslashes "c:\windows\win.com" works, but using
slashes "c:/windows/win.com" does not work.  I suspect that it is
using argv[0] to determine the directory in which the executable
resides, but it cannot parse pathnames with slashes.
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