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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Microsoft C V3.0 -> 4.0 Incompatibility
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Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 15:30:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 15:30:15 1986
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I recently recompiled a program under Microsoft C V4.0 and found the
program worked a little differently.  Under V3.0, a command line
argument of the form:

	/"This is a test string"
        
generated arguments like:

	Argv[1] = /"This
        Argv[2] = is
        Argv[3] = a
        Argv[4] = test
        Argv[5] = string"
        
This was not quite what I expected -- the manual indicated (at least
as I understood it) that I should get:

	Argv[1] = /This is a test string
        
But I worked around the apparent bug in V3.0.

Under V4.0, my program didn't worked the same.  My first suspicion
was that Microsoft actually fixed the bug.  What I get now, though, is

	Argv[1] = /This
        Argv[2] = is
        Argv[3] = a
        Argv[4] = test
        Argv[5] = string

which isn't right either, and caused my program some problems when
it tried to find the closing double quote.  I changed my program to
expect single quotes, and these are passed through without alteration.

Clayton E. Cramer