Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 14:57:22 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: /? command line args being altered by DJGPP
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Graeme Fenwick wrote:

> Put simply, I've written (part of a) program to parse command line
> arguments, and it's running into trouble when I try to read the arguments
> "/?", "/??", "/???" and so on. For some reason, the argument is sometimes
> being converted into what seems like a directory name(!), so the program
> itself isn't reading the argument as "/?".

See section 16.1 of the DJGPP FAQ list (v2/faq211b.zip from the same 
place you get DJGPP).