Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!warwick From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS Command Line Message-ID: <1262@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 9 May 91 00:51:29 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 23 >If you're programming in Pascal... >This may be a good time to switch to a less restrictive language. :-) On this subject, I have an xARG/ARGV/TOS Arguments module for Modula-2, maybe we should put these implementations together at the archive to help promote the use of these less restrictive argument passing techniques. Oh, and what would be the best order to try accessing arguments? I try xARG, then ARGV, the finally revert to TOS if all else fails. Ideas? >And is it possible to support both XARG and ARGV? Yes, depending on how restrictive your language is :-). Warwick. Frankly, I can't think of a language that COULDN'T do all this - but then, this isn't alt.religion.computers, so I doubt I'll be told! -- _-_|\ warwick@cs.uq.oz.au / * <-- Computer Science Department, \_.-._/ University of Queensland, v Brisbane, AUSTRALIA.