From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject:	Re: Separators wrong in argv[0] ?
Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:51:06 +0200
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Andrew McLean wrote:
> 
> When I look at 'argv[0]', I expect to see the fully-qualified filename
> of my executable. I do, but the separators are Unix-style
> '/' instead of DOS-style '\'.
> Is there a switch to correct this ?

Hmm. I do not consider this being wrong.
Most of the DOS innards give a damn about forward
and backward slashes, the only brain dead program
that really does is COMMAND.COM. 

The only thing that might get you in trouble are
the first two slashes if it is started from a network
and truename() returns a UNC:
  if(argv[0][0]=='/' && argv[0][1]=='/')
      argv[0][0]=argv[0][1]='\';



The only real bug here are the drive letters, but
that's inside DOS ;-)

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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