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From: psurge@cs.utexas.edu (Troy Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: command line arguments
Keywords: programming
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Date: 5 Jan 91 05:56:41 GMT
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I am programming in either Personal Pascal or Modula 2.  I have this question:

How does one get a program in either of these languages to use arguments passed
from the command line.  For instance, say I wanted to write a .TTP dialer
called "dial".  From the command line I would type:

dial [number]

How do I get the program to recognize the variable "number" in either Personal
Pascal or Modula 2 (Modula 2 preferred).

Thanks in advance.


                                Troy Carpenter
                        Department of Computer Sciences
                        THE University of Texas, Austin
                              psurge@cs.utexas.edu

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