DN> The above is absolute rubbish. The ISO standard supports two and only two
 DN> forms of declaring main:

 DN>     int main( void );
 DN>     int main( int, char ** );

Correct.

 DN> The use of those arguments is implementation dependant, but usually the
 DN> first is the number of arguments, the second is the address of an array of
 DN> char* into which words on the command line has been parsed.

It's far more well-defined than that.  You really should spring for
the $70 you know David!  :-)  argc will definitely be the number of
program arguments, and argv will be an array of characters, with
the argv[argc] == NULL, stuff like that.  I would quote from the
standard, but it's in the other room, but if you disagree with what
I say, I'm happy to quote that bit again.  BFN.  Paul.
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