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From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Command line arguements?
Message-ID: <24632@lanl.gov>
Date: 29 May 91 21:05:22 GMT
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In article <eesnyder.675543629@beagle>, eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder) writes:
|> 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 ....

Yeah.  I've always wanted to be able to do this on UNIX (with _any_
language).  Unfortunately, the shell trashes the command line before
I can have a look at it.  I can turn that unsavory behaviour off - 
which is fine for me, but I can't be sure all the users of my software
will turn it off.  So, I have to do without a command line and deal
with the junk the shell gives me instead.

J. Giles