Aucbvax.6840 fa.info-vax utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax 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
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