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From: billf@progress.COM (Bill Ferro)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 2 questions: _argv and radio buttons
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Date: 27 Dec 90 22:47:24 GMT
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ssvvss@mixcom.UUCP (Synetics Software) writes:

>M.S. documentation says I can access the command line arguments by
>declaring "extern char *_argv[]" (actually it's __argv with 2 underscores,
>_argv with 1 underscore is not defined).  When I do this, I get garbage
>when I access the array, although __argc seems to be set correctly.
>Is there a trick to getting this to work?  I'd prefer to access argv
>rather than parsing lpCmdLine which gets passed to WinMain.

I found that Windows "extern char *__argv[]" is actually a pointer to
the real argv.  In my case, in WinMain, I call a MAIN procedure.  The
code goes something like this:
	extern	char	*__argv[];
	extern	char	__argc;

	...
	main(__argc,(char **)*__argv);
	...
Hope this helps....

-bf

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