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Re: New 40-folder solver ??? - (nf)

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From: John Buck
Date: Sat, 02 May 1987 22:24
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In article <2062@cwruecmp.UUCP>, vlsi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Hackers Galore) writes:
> In article <716@atari.UUCP> dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) writes:
> >Yep.  Writing software at Atari Corp. is interesting, because the
> >place leaks pre-release software like a sieve.  The 'foldrxxx.prg'
> 
> Landon,
> What `trick' do you use to pick up the program name from the
> command line, and normally argv[0] is not avail

I would say the way he probably did it was to use snext(), and read the
/auto directory looking for something like fold???.prg.  (IE we know
that it's going to be in /auto).

Pretty simple piece of code.  I do not think that was any argv[0] trick
involved.

John Buck
trixie!polyofcontai
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From: john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New 40-folder solver ??? - (nf)
Message-ID: <221@polyof.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-May-87 18:24:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: polyof.221
Posted: Sat May  2 18:24:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 3-May-87 19:40:35 EDT
References: <119100011@exunido.UUCP> <716@atari.UUCP> <2062@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Organization: Polytechnic Inst. of NY, Farmingdale NY
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Summary: argv[0], another way in this case