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From: msmith%albion.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Matthew Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Passing command line arguments from .bat file to application?
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.144501.2417@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 20:45:00 GMT
References: <39104@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <39104@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>I have been trying, without success, to pass a batch file command
>line argument to a program that is invoked from inside the batch
>file. The batch file has something like:
>	.....
>	programname "%1"
>	.....
>and is invoked as:
>	batchfilename param
>
>but programname never gets param. Would someone advise me how to do 
>this correctly? 

Well, I'm not sure if you put those ""'s around the %1 in your batch file
or not, if you did, you shouldn't.  If I called a batch file called BATCH
with the parameters A B C D, like such:  BATCH A B C D 
then, inside the batch file, any reference made to %1 would be replaced 
by A, %2 by B, etc...
 
So, if in the batch file, I wanted to call MYPROG with the first parameter
passed to BATCH, my batch file would look like this:

MYPROG %1

I think you had the right idea, depending on if you put those quotes there
or not...


>Cheers,
>-Graham

(*SWIG*) (*ahhh*)
thanks!
 
Matt Smith

msmith@peruvian.utah.edu