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From: rio@image.me.utoronto.ca (Oscar del Rio)
Subject: Re: Getting the command line args
Message-ID: <90Nov6.193651est.4323@image.me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto, Mechanical Engineering, Canada
References: <950041@hpclapd.HP.COM> <1611@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> <2416@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 7 Nov 90 14:25:14 GMT

In article <2416@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> tswingle@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tom Swingle) writes:
>In article <1611@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) writes:
>>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 :-)
>
>Just a small syntactical point, ParamStr is a function rather than an array, so
>the call should be 'ParamStr(I)' rather than 'ParamStr[I]'.  Probably most
>everybody out there caught this also, but I thought I would post this in case
>someone was having trouble.  Of course, like he said, it is in the manual,
>which you all DO have a copy of don't you?  :-)
>-- 

Besides, I think that ParamStr(0) does not return the name of the program
if you are using DOS 2.x. (Yes, some people are still using DOS 2.11 :-).
Am I wrong? I have never used TURBO with DOS 2.x but I read it somewhere
(maybe in the manual :-)

Bye.