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> From: ignore-this-prefixkin@techie.com
> Date: 26 Mar 2004 20:23:11 -0800
> 
> command-line-args does not contain the command line args
> passed by shell.  For instance, command-line-args is
> ("emacs") in the instance of emacs invoked as "emacs -u kin".

That's normal behavior: arguments that are processed by Emacs during
its startup are deleted from command-line-args.

The doc string in the development sources already mentions that.