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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: fast code and no morals ("plagi
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 10:48:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 10:48:00 1986
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/* Written  6:35 pm  Feb  8, 1986 by levy@ttrdc.UUCP in net.lang.c */
What about a system where it is impossible to give command line arguments to a
program, like the early-stone-age card reading IBM systems?   Not all C runs
on Unix ya know....  (Is C only allowed to run on machines that DO allow
command line arguments?  What does the proposed ANSI C standard say about this?)
/* End of text from net.lang.c */

Actually, there are times one might want to parse the command line oneself.
Consider the joys of the quoting and so forth required to type a RFC822
address on a command line so as to make it past the shell, etc. to a mailer.
I'll say no more, since it's been discussed at vociferous length before
(mostly flamage at anyone daring to suggest something other than what Unix
does).

					James Jones