X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Georg Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: argv[0] Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:13:52 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <16b04d29-8317-4c7f-929c-1a22a328fa32 AT p9g2000vbb DOT googlegroups DOT com> <9bf257a7-a0f8-43ba-a65f-36c6027f68cb AT r28g2000yqj DOT googlegroups DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.250.191.164 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1322674147 18134 127.0.0.1 (30 Nov 2011 17:29:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: 4g2000yqu.googlegroups.com; posting-host=92.250.191.164; posting-account=v5xbdQoAAAAOGc9Ccc-kLZyobvPlN3Qr User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 TAS-4-4.man-a X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: UALSERCVNKH X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2169 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi Rod, thank you for your message. I tried to follow your suggestion 2, but did not succeed. It seems to read the environment segment ok but does not read the right environment data. Can you spot what I am doing wrong? I am testing in a Windows XP DOS box. Regards Georg Potthast #include #include #include #define env_size 2049 int main() { int i; unsigned int env_address = 0; unsigned long the_psp = 0; static char environment[env_size]; the_psp = _go32_info_block.linear_address_of_original_psp; dosmemget(the_psp + 0x2C, 2, &env_address); env_address <<= 4; //make linear address printf("\nENV:%04X\n",env_address); dosmemget(env_address, sizeof(environment), &environment); for (i=0;i