> There is a line of code at that section -
>
> while ( --argc > 0 && ( *++argv ) [0] == '-' )
>       while ( c= *++argv [0] )
>                switch (c)  {.......}
>
> I do not understand the portion c = *++argv[0]. From what i understand, the
> 'result' of that incrementing and dereferencing will be c = argv[0][1],
> which is wrong.

Note the first (*++argv)[0] means that argv gets ++'d, so it moves past
argv[0] to argv[1]'s address (skipping past the launch filename).

Now when you do c = *++argv[0], that will increment the pointer of
argv[1] by 1, skipping past the '-'.

Code like the above is highly unreadable (hence your message), and authors
of such atrocities should be taken out and maimed, shot, and otherwise
tortured. ;-) (yes, I know it's K&R, but they weren't the best coders in
the world).

-->Neil

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Synthcom Systems, Inc.  king - he's a prisoner.
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