X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: RayeR Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: argv[0] Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:19:02 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <16b04d29-8317-4c7f-929c-1a22a328fa32 AT p9g2000vbb DOT googlegroups DOT com> <6719f201-2317-420d-bb38-3be66c90140b AT q9g2000yqe DOT googlegroups DOT com> <5059ad16-7787-49ef-8fb3-d9c21919a65b AT d10g2000vbf DOT googlegroups DOT com> <20af6883-aa05-4549-b820-ca0f7c80708d AT ca1g2000vbb DOT googlegroups DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.45.168.98 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1323138059 12251 127.0.0.1 (6 Dec 2011 02:20:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 02:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: p9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=78.45.168.98; posting-account=Q0wMHAoAAADjYrghh94FTf6YnbpTqZgp User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2624 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id pB62j2to008517 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Yes I admit that my code is not 100% bullet proof but it covers me most of case I need. Georg, I'm afraid if your code would run 100% well on all common DOS and DOS-clones and Windows DOS boxes, maybe yes I donn't know. Here's output of your code ran under DOS box of XP under DOS Navigator: MCB:2270 M PSP:8 Blocksize:2BB MCB:4E30 M PSP:4E4 Blocksize:AB ENV:598 Program:COMMAND MCB:58F0 M PSP:0 Blocksize:7 MCB:5970 M PSP:4E4 Blocksize:6C MCB:6040 M PSP:663 Blocksize:5D MCB:6620 M PSP:663 Blocksize:32 ENV:605 Program:DN MCB:6950 M PSP:6F5 Blocksize:5E MCB:6F40 M PSP:6F5 Blocksize:AB ENV:7A1 Program:COMMAND MCB:7A00 M PSP:6F5 Blocksize:5C MCB:7FD0 M PSP:85D Blocksize:5E Path:MARTIN\C\EXAMPLES \MCBTRACE.EXESSORS=2 MCB:85C0 M PSP:85D Blocksize:410 ENV:187 Program:MCBTRACEÍ ÿŸ MCB:C6D0 M PSP:0 Blocksize:F00 MCB:1B6E0 Z PSP:0 Blocksize:8490 I can see here some overwritten strings (MCB:7FD0) and strange characters (MCB:85C0)