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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMDOS Extended Argument Standard
Keywords: dlibs, xargs, argv, gemdos, argument passing
Message-ID: <1443@atari.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 89 19:42:49 GMT
References: <1405@atari.UUCP> <558@tukki.jyu.fi> <536@bdt.UUCP>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <536@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
> ... I propose a new GEMDOS trap function code
> which requests the extended arguments.  This way new programs must 
> explicitly ask for the extended arguments, so there will be no confusion
> about whether the program knows what it's doing or not.

Unfortunately, it's too late to put something like this in TOS 1.4, and
we'd like to establish a new standard sooner than we can get another TOS
release out.  To require an OS upgrade for people to get the benefit of
extended arguments is really more trouble than we'd hoped for; almost
ANYTHING (including ARGV= and xArgs) is preferable to that. 

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
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