Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!LCAMPBELL@dec-marlboro From: LCAMPBELL%dec-marlboro@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: compiling UNIX utilities on your PC Message-ID: <17132@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 07:12:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17132 Posted: Fri Mar 2 07:12:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Mar-84 01:08:16 EST Lines: 9 From: Larry CampbellI don't know about other C compilers, but Computer Innovations' C-86 inits argc and argv just fine. (MS-DOS passes the command line as one long string which the C-86 runtime system then pulls apart.) MS-DOS (version 2.xx) does redirection and piping transparently, but does not do wildcard expansion in the shell. That you'd have to do yourself. --------