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From: ddavidso@gara.une.oz.au (Dean Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: DOS command line
Keywords: command line
Message-ID: <5694@gara.une.oz.au>
Date: 19 Mar 91 22:44:32 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.161155.21637@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: ddavidso@gara.UUCP (Dean Davidson)
Organization: Uni. of New England, Armidale, NSW.
Lines: 25

In article <1991Mar19.161155.21637@en.ecn.purdue.edu> terran@en.ecn.purdue.edu (The Lord of Fire and Death) writes:
>Does anybody know where the DOS command line is kept in memory and/or
>how to find it at run time?

The following should do the job for you:

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{function to get the command line}
{modified by Dean Davidson from an idea by Trevor Carlson}

type
st = string[128];
pt = ^st;

function cl : st;
{function to get the command line}

var
sp : pt;

begin
  sp := ptr(PrefixSeg,$80);
  cl := sp^;
end;