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Wed Apr 21 17:28:56 1982
Foreign command line
>From GZ@MIT-MC Wed Apr 21 17:20:16 1982
This is really a crock but if you get the command line with CLI, the program
name is there, before the pointer returned to you. I.e. it looks something
like this
UMENU FOO FIE
^
Your pointer.
Just back up the pointer to the first non-alphabetic character (usually a
rubout it seems). I do</PRE>
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