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Article #6812Re: Wildcard types
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 13:18
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 13:18
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In article <1990Nov19.044047.850@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes: > Haven't you ever programmed with ARP? One of the best things that > ARP did was the removal of the clumsy argc/argv[] of normal C. ARP gave > you PREPARSED command lines. Which is totally useless, because it breaks compatibility between your program and every other C runtime in existence. If I write a command-line oriented program, I'm going to want it to compile correctly and run on the Amiga and UNIX... and probably DOS as well. These days I just use "parseargs", which does the same thing but remains compatible with existing C runtimes by operating on an argv and coming with source code. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!mimsy!haven!udel!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcard types Keywords: ARP, command line parsing Message-ID: <7085@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 19 Nov 90 13:18:17 GMT References: <1990Nov16.171451.5668@gtisqr.uucp> <1990Nov16.234820.14783@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <a9rK02ZFe8RI01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1990Nov19.044047.850@NCoast.ORG> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 16