Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:24:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Funny with characters > 127 in Gnu C/C++ call args


On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, A.Appleyard wrote:

> arg[1] = `cat'        /* and the args were truncated at the 0xaa character */
> 
>   This is a nuisance. Will it still happen with version 2?

This is a known bug in v1.x start-up code which was corrected in v2.0.  
Under v1.x, programs cannot get command-line arguments that include 
characters with ASCII code > 127, because the ctype functions in v1.x had 
a bug when dealing with these.