Getting the command tail

How do i get the command tail and parse it into an array, kinda like C++?

How about a proc to return the command tail?

what's the command tail?

C:\FOO\MAN\CHOO\MYPROG test.txt

ahh, you get a pointer to that in WinMain, say you use a standard C style procedure for WinMain (or whatever the starting procedure is) something like this

Code:

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proc WinMain

push ebp
mov ebp, esp          ;store the stack pointer in ebp
                      ;so we can get at the parameters


;any code you need for your program


mov esp, ebp
pop ebp
ret 10;

endp WinMain

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ebp is then a pointer to the bottom of the stack just after you pushed ebp

so ebp points to what is essentially a structure

Code:

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struct
{
    unsigned long  Old_EBP;
    void*          Return_Address;
    HINSTANCE      hInstance;     
    HINSTANCE      hPrevInstance;
    LPSTR          lpCmdLine;
    int            nCmdShow;
} Wot_EBP_Points_To;

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so [ebp + 10h] is a pointer to a null terminated char array which contains the command tail, the string will stay in memory until the end of the winmain procedure, which should be the end of your program.

hope it helps

Im doing it in dos, if i was using windows i would call "GetCommandLine".

oh, err, I don't know then