Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 07:56:02 -0400
Message-Id: <199608111156.HAA03925@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960811123219.24678g-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Sun, 11 Aug 1996 12:41:26 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: `system' and wildcard expansion


> variable called " !proxy" (lower-cased and with the leading blank) and are

Why not call it something more mnemonic, like DJGPP_ARGS ?

> 	1) The GNUish MSDOS method of passing long command lines (`_argc', 
> `_arv0', etc. in the environment) is no longer supported.  Shame on me 

I think go32 did support reading them, but not setting them.  Nobody
has complained yet.

> 	2) The startup flags that deal with the way argv[0] will look 

If there is no !proxy, the flags affect argv[0] also, since we copy it
from _dos_argv0 when we build argv[].