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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Getting the command line args
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Date: 6 Nov 90 06:55:35 GMT
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In article <950041@hpclapd.HP.COM> defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria) writes:
>How does a running program access the command line arguments?  I would like
>to do this with Turbo Pascal.
Well, looking in the manual (which you should have, cause you DID by the 
program :-), the function 'ParamCount' returns how many parameters were 
passed to the program, and the function 'ParamStr[I]' return's the I'th 
parameter.  ParamStr[0] will return the name of the program running (i.e., 
it's own name, just in case you want it to erase its self after the first
use :-)

If you haven't created an .exe file yet, you can set the passed parms in the
options menu ( alt-o,p ).		

Btw, this is on page 345-346 in the 'Reference Guide' manual.  :->
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