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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Pexec Cookbook
Message-ID: <150@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 20:13:54 GMT
References: <498@uhnix2.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
Lines: 47
Keywords: Pexec

In article <498@uhnix2.UUCP> uace0@uhnix2.UUCP (Michael B. Vederman) writes:
[ removed pexec cookbook ]
[ Alan's ARGV= proposed solution of passing the parent basepage in env. PBP ]
>In the startup code of the child, you would do something like this:
>
>If there's a PBP= in the environment
>	If atol(PBP) == my parent's basepage
>		get args from environment
>	else
>		get args from command line
>	endif
>else
>	if there's an ARGV= in the environment
>		get args from environment
>	else
>		get args from command line
>	endif
>endif
>
>
>Does this sound reasonable? I would like to see this kind of thing
>become a standard, ...

If this is what everyone agrees to, I will do it.   I never told MWC how
to do ARGV=; they just did it, and so I went ahead and changed my programs
to support it.   I don't know if it ever reached you personally, but I
and several other company reps. approached Atari for a "standard" way
of doing this way before MWC came along, and collectively we were told
(I quote from memory) "Atari won't make anything a standard; do it any
way you want, but we won't necessarilly support it, and it may not be
compatible with future Atari software and systems."

At that I did it one way, and then MWC came along with another way, and
the rest is history.

Now at least MWC and Micro/MT C-Shell are all compatible.  If the above
approach is the new "official" standard, I will implement it; but not
before I know it will be supportted.

Would it also work to compare argv[1] from the ARGV= and from the command
tail, and if they differ, use the args from the command tail?

(This is not a flame on Alan.  It's directed at Atari upper management BS).
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