On , Simon Avery (2:255/90@fidonet) wrote: 
 > DOS 7 (Win95) sets the environment CMDLINE to pass the full command-line.
 > Eg:
 > C:\>SET
 > CMDLINE=edit \GOLDED\GOLDED.cfg
 > That's not particularly portable though. AFAIK - the only decent way is to
 > use argv[] from main, noting that there will be one space twixt each entry
 > (or more - depends on what you expect to be passed to your program).
Simon...
  You didn't need to wait long! ;-) The obvious exception is that before 
parsing the command line into the argv[] array, it first strips out any and 
all redirection and/or piping operators. For example if you have a filter, 
FOO.EXE, which expects input from stdin, output to stdout, and error message 
to stderr, your command might look like...
FOO  FUBAR | XYZ
...in which case, neither BAR, FUBAR, nor XYZ, nor any of the operators will 
show up in the aargv[] array. If you want to be *really* OS-specific, you 
could always look at the 128-byte command buffer in the PSP...
 
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