diff --git a/repl/main.c b/repl/main.c
index 0ef84ed..91d4587 100644
--- a/repl/main.c
+++ b/repl/main.c
@@ -239,8 +239,8 @@ CmdLine parseCmdLine(int argc, const char* argv[]) {
 
 				i++;
 
-				//total space to reserve - it's actually longer than needed, due to the exe name being removed
-				cmd.infileLength = strlen(argv[0]) + strlen(argv[i]) + 1;
+				//total space to reserve
+				cmd.infileLength = strlen(argv[i]) + 1;
 				cmd.infileLength = (cmd.infileLength + 3) & ~3; //BUGFIX: align to  word size for malloc()
 				cmd.infile = malloc(cmd.infileLength);
 
@@ -249,9 +249,7 @@ CmdLine parseCmdLine(int argc, const char* argv[]) {
 					exit(-1);
 				}
 
-				getFilePath(cmd.infile, argv[0]);
-				APPEND(cmd.infile, argv[i]);
-				FLIPSLASH(cmd.infile);
+				strncpy(cmd.infile, argv[i], strlen(argv[i]));
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/tests/scripts/makefile b/tests/scripts/makefile
index f344aa8..dca4d25 100644
--- a/tests/scripts/makefile
+++ b/tests/scripts/makefile
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ copy:
 run: $(TEST_SCRIPTFILES:.toy=.toy-run)
 
 %.toy-run: %.toy
-	find  -name repl* -type f -exec {} -f ../$< --verbose \;
+	find  -name repl* -type f -exec {} -f $< --verbose \;
 
 #using gdb
 gdb: source repl copy run-gdb
@@ -49,4 +49,4 @@ gdb: source repl copy run-gdb
 run-gdb: $(TEST_SCRIPTFILES:.toy=.toy-run-gdb)
 
 %.toy-run-gdb: %.toy
-	gdb $(TEST_OUTDIR)/$(TEST_REPLNAME) -ix gdb_init -ex=run --batch --return-child-result --args "out/repl.out" "-f" "../$<" "--verbose"
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+	gdb $(TEST_OUTDIR)/$(TEST_REPLNAME) -ix gdb_init -ex=run --batch --return-child-result --args "out/repl.out" "-f" "$<" "--verbose"
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