Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!boulder!boulder!eesnyder From: eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Command line arguements? Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 19:00:29 GMT Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: beagle.colorado.edu I need to write a program that takes arguements from the command line and passes them to variables with in the program. eg: a.out arg1 arg2 .... This must be amazingly simple but I can't find anything in my SGI Iris 4D f77 manual. What do you call this and where can I find out about it? Disclaimer: Be nice-- I'm just a biologist:-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TTGATTGCTAAACACTGGGCGGCGAATCAGGGTTGGGATCTGAACAAAGACGGTCAGATTCAGTTCGTACTGCTG Eric E. Snyder Department of MCD Biology ...making feet for childrens' shoes. University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, Colorado 80309-0347 LeuIleAlaLysHisTrpAlaAlaAsnGlnGlyTrpAspLeuAsnLysAspGlyGlnIleGlnPheValLeuLeu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------