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Subject: First try to send this
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Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 11:56:28 EDT
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Reply to James M. Turner

> 1) when i call a sub-command using Pexec(0,STcmd,STargs,STenv)
> [assume they are all char *] the first character of STargs gets
> dropped or more likely the ptr is getting incremented by 1, putting
> a leading blank in STargs works but seems silly
 
I have found, by comparision with what the dialouge box produces,
that the STargs string is a counted string, ie the first byte contains
the length of the string. It looks like a documentation flaw to me.

					Bjorn Engberg
					Digital Equipment Corp
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