From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: Command Line on windows
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:27:54 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-09-12T08:27:54-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Sep 12, 8:18 am, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> RasikaSriniva...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > but it appears the wildcard is always "expanded to the list of file
> > names". for example, i create test_cli.adb with the following :
>
> This appears to be a "feature" of GNAT, apparently to make programs behave the
> same on Windows as on Linux, where wildcards are expanded by the shell.
You can get around this by calling GetCommandLine yourself; this will
get Windows to give you the original command line, unprocessed by
GNAT. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683156(VS.85).aspx
But you'll have to deal with the null terminator yourself
(Interfaces.C.Strings should help here) and parse the arguments
yourself.
-- Adam
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-12 12:05 Command Line on windows RasikaSrinivasan
2008-09-12 12:25 ` Gautier
2008-09-12 14:36 ` RasikaSrinivasan
2008-09-12 14:59 ` Gautier
2008-09-12 15:54 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-09-12 16:31 ` Keith Thompson
2008-09-12 17:00 ` Pascal Obry
2008-09-12 15:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-09-12 15:27 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
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