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Re: strange problem

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: strange problem
Date 2015-03-23 08:10 -0700
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JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> writes:
> bilsch <king621@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> You could make it argc<=1, for example.
>> 
>> I tried that just now.  It doesn't fix the problem.
>> This is truly a strange problem.
>
> argc<2 is the usual test for no user-supplied command-line args.
> But I've had problems with windows when the executable was in
> a directory whose path contained spaces. Then the "pieces" of the
> path were sometimes each counted as separate args (e.g., by mingw
> compiler), and things got screwed up.
[...]

So if the the executable is "C:\dir name\foo.exe", you'll
get "C:\dir" in argv[0] and "name\foo.exe" in argv[1]?  Ick.
Does quoting the executable name work around it?

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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strange problem bilsch <king621@comcast.net> - 2015-03-23 02:10 +0000
  Re: strange problem Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-23 03:03 +0000
    Re: strange problem Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-22 22:09 -0700
      Re: strange problem Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-23 09:04 +0000
    Re: strange problem bilsch <king621@comcast.net> - 2015-03-23 08:30 +0000
      Re: strange problem Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-23 09:06 +0000
        Re: strange problem bilsch <king621@comcast.net> - 2015-03-23 21:21 +0000
          Re: strange problem Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-23 21:42 +0000
            Re: strange problem bilsch <king621@comcast.net> - 2015-03-23 22:35 +0000
            Re: strange problem Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-24 12:20 -0700
          Re: strange problem Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-23 15:23 -0700
            Re: strange problem Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-23 23:14 +0000
              Re: strange problem Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-23 17:10 -0700
  Re: strange problem glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-23 03:03 +0000
    Re: strange problem bilsch <king621@comcast.net> - 2015-03-23 08:37 +0000
      Re: strange problem raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-03-23 09:37 +0000
        Re: strange problem bilsch <king621@comcast.net> - 2015-03-23 21:27 +0000
          Re: strange problem Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-23 21:43 +0000
            Re: strange problem bilsch <king621@comcast.net> - 2015-03-23 22:36 +0000
              Re: strange problem Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-23 17:09 -0700
      Re: strange problem JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-03-23 13:02 +0000
        Re: strange problem Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-23 13:10 +0000
          Re: strange problem Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-23 19:18 -0500
            Re: strange problem Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-24 00:28 +0000
              Re: strange problem Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-23 19:38 -0500
              Re: strange problem jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-03-24 01:12 +0000
        Re: strange problem Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-23 08:10 -0700
        Re: strange problem Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-03-23 11:28 -0400
          Re: strange problem bilsch <king621@comcast.net> - 2015-03-23 21:47 +0000
            Re: strange problem Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-03-23 21:53 +0000
            Re: strange problem Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-03-23 18:34 -0400
              Re: strange problem James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-03-23 18:58 -0400
    Re: strange problem raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-03-23 09:54 +0000
  Re: strange problem Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-03-23 21:47 +0000

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