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On 3/2/06, Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > AFAIK, windows has only one argument, returned by GetCommandLine?
>
> This is true, but there's a standard quoting convention which (in
> particular) Microsoft's C library uses to split the single argument back
> into an argv.  The spawn* functions quote; the C library startup stuff
> unquotes and splits.

Doesn't for programs using WinMain, which is probably 90% of all
windows programs.