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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count question
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Thomas L�cke wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering what that last sentence mean? Is the RM trying to tell me 
> that Argument_Count cannot be trusted to yield the same result on 
> different systems (Unix, BSD, Windows, Linux and so on)?

Consider the argument list

/a/b/c

On some systems, this is 3 arguments: "a", "b", and "c". '/' is used to 
introduce an argument.

On other systems, this is a single argument representing an absolute file path. 
'/' is the directory separator.

On yet other systems, this might be interpreted in a completely different way.

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