Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Paul Garceau" Organization: New Dawn Productions To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:45:23 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: _argc & _argv Reply-to: Paul Garceau Message-ID: <398817E3.18099.CFDCC@localhost> In-reply-to: <20000801230930.A21712@cygnus.com> References: <20000801225703 DOT A21609 AT cygnus DOT com>; from cgf AT cygnus DOT com on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:57:03PM -0400 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) On 1 Aug 2000, at 23:09, the Illustrious Chris Faylor wrote: > >Cygwin does try to > stride two worlds and it is not always easy to see >the > distinction between the Windows way and the UNIX way. In > >retrospect, I can't honestly say that we didn't implement __argv > and >__argc because "They don't do things that way on Windows" > because we ^^^^^^^ > UNIX. > Thank you. > >have made other concessions to the Microsoft way of doing > >things. I agree that the less concessions we must make to the MS way of doing things, the better off is the outcome. > > > >In this case the real answer as to why there is no __argv and > >__argc is probably "Because no one thought to add it." I understand... I have implemented, within my rendering app (not Cygwin) a means to deal with argc and argv for Windows...basically I just added the definitions under an "ifdef __CYGWIN__" Works fine now...thanks again for everyones time on this. Peace, Paul G. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com