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Re: You can get argv[0] in DOS 3.x

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From: hamilton
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 01:14
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morearty@cory.Berkeley.EDU sez:
>I just discovered an undocumented feature of the more recent
>versions of DOS: it is at last possible to obtain argv[0].

ummm, this WAS documented, in my dos 3.0 technical reference manual.

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