From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 04:08:40 +0000, Mike Terry wrote:   
      
   > The argc/argv problem seemed easy enough in practice if we only need   
   > to handle the "real" arguments argv[n] with n>0. (Involving CMD.EXE   
   > introduced much worse complications, as you might imagine. But   
   > generally I always thought that MS wasn't really interested in   
   > /documenting/ how programmers should do things like this, in the   
   > same way they never bothered explaining exactly how CMD processing   
   > worked. Probably because it was forever changing!... Put another   
   > way, for many years they were really more focussed on admins   
   > clicking buttons in some GUI!)   
      
   After years -- decades -- of conditioning its users to be allergic to   
   the command line, now suddenly the rise of Linux has made command   
   lines cool again. Leaving Microsoft in an awkward position ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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