Re: cmd-window startup

From: Alan Illeman (spamtrap_at_crayne.org)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:07:03 +0000 (UTC)

"Alex McDonald" <spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote in message news:1107464792.572276.262310@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> The commandline for programs invoked by double-clicking on the file in
> Windows Explorer will contain a fully qualified path, enclosed in
> double quotes (found in argv[0] in C terms). For commands run from the
> command line, it's possible but fairly unlikely that the user typed a
> quoted string. You could check argv[0] for the lack of a leading " to
> test for this. However, that makes your program behave inconsistently;
> other programs don't do this.
>
> --
> Regards
> Alex McDonald

What the user types in on the command line starts at argv[1], not
argv[0], the latter being the path and name of the executable.

Anyway.. I checked both argv[0] and argv[1..] (I always parse these
in asm programs I write) and there are never any quotes present.
Nice idea, though ;-)

(writing .com programs in Windows 2000 Pro, using Masm 6.11)
I compared the environment strings in both cases: same, and
compared the MCB chain in both cases: also the same. I'll keep
digging...

>Alan

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