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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Can my program find its name?
Message-ID: <2845@atari.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 91 22:20:34 GMT
References: <2133022@nuthaus.UUCP> <1991Feb18.205200.8638@uwovax.uwo.ca> <2843@atari.UUCP> <1991Feb21.151919.23876@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) writes:
>BTW, the missing argv[0] in TOS programs really hurts sometimes.
>Sure, it's a design failure you are not responsible for, but it
>might be worth it thinking about solutions. 

We *have* thought about solutions.  That's what the extended argument
passing spec is for.  It's pretty widely accepted, I think.  It's the same
as the MWC method, using ARGV= in the environment, except (A) there is no
information about file handles (you can find out other ways), and (B) there
is a special value in the "length" byte of the command line to tell you the
environment's ARGV= is valid.

I will try to find the extended argument spec document and post it again.

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