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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: redirection indicated in argc
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Date: 16 Feb 90 07:38:07 GMT
Sender: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
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I was using Microsoft C, and had a program that used command line
arguments and read the standard input.  When I specified:

    command arg1 arg2 ... argn-1 < filename

The argc variable reflected the presence of the filename.  
i.e. it had the value n+1.
When I specified:

    type filename | command arg1 arg2 ... argn-1

it was not indicated, i.e. it had the value n.  I think this must 
be a compiler bug.  -David-

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