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From: 880716a@aucs.uucp (Dave Astels)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo P V5.5--Receiving parameters from the command line.
Keywords: Command line
Message-ID: <1990May2.114659.21404@aucs.uucp>
Date: 2 May 90 11:46:59 GMT
References: <1990Apr27.203354.993@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: 880716a@aucs.UUCP (Dave Astels)
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <1990Apr27.203354.993@watdragon.waterloo.edu> gcreesor@lotus.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Reesor) writes:
>I would like to have a program compiled using TP5.5 read parameters on
>the command line entered after the program name.

Check out functions/procs ParamCount and ParamStr.  (something close to that,
I am going from memory)  These correspond roughly to argc & argv in C.

-- 
- Dave

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