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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:55:02 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  said:

> If you want to modify argv[0] etc, loop over argv[], count howmuch
> space there is (strlen(argv[0] + 1 + strlen(argv[1] + 1 ... etc)
> and make sure you do NOT write a string longer than that. Also
> make sure that you end the string with a double \0

Or steal the code that's already been done - sendmail and wu-ftpd both have
code to do this....

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				Valdis Kletnieks
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				Virginia Tech


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