Message-ID:	<3462C1F8.59CB@cs.com>
Date:	Fri, 07 Nov 1997 07:23:36 +0000
From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Reply-To:	fighteer AT cs DOT com
Organization:	Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	Randy Maas <randym AT xiotech DOT com>
CC:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: 971009 djsplit & djmerge
References:	<3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 32 DOT 19971106105708 DOT 007dd210 AT yacker DOT xiotech DOT com>

Randy Maas wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Vik Heyndrickx wrote:
> > fprintf(stderr,"Usage: %s [inputBase] [outputFile]\n", argv[0]);
> >
> >The downside of this is that you (usually) get in argv[0] the whole path
> name of the program, which might be quite long.
> 
> maybe, in a not so elegant fashion, this would do a decent job:

[snip]

Better yet, use fnsplit(), which is what I ended up doing after going to
a lot of trouble to break up filenames manually.

    char progname[FILENAME_MAX];
    fnsplit( argv[0], NULL, NULL, progname, NULL );

    fprintf(stderr,"Usage: %s [inputBase] [outputFile]\n", progname);

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