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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle)
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Subject: Re: Getting the command line args
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Date: 7 Nov 90 18:19:16 GMT
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In article <90Nov6.193651est.4323@image.me.utoronto.ca> rio@image.me.utoronto.ca (Oscar del Rio) writes:
>Besides, I think that ParamStr(0) does not return the name of the program
>if you are using DOS 2.x. (Yes, some people are still using DOS 2.11 :-).
>Am I wrong? I have never used TURBO with DOS 2.x but I read it somewhere
>(maybe in the manual :-)
>
>Bye. 

Yup, just checked.  ParamStr(0) (notice the parens!! :-) return the name of the
program in Dos 3.0 or later.

BTW, a friend of mine found out that FORMAT for dos 2.0 (which she is using)
defaults to formatting 3.5HD disks to 360K.  Just thought it was interesting...
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