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From: tedcrane@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Process startup parameters
Message-ID: <692@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 09:28:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 15 09:28:11 1987
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In article <177@verdix.UUCP> verdix!sbq@seismo.CSS.GOV (Sam Quiring) writes:
>
>Does anyone know where VMS process startup is documented?
>In particular, I would like to find out what parameters are
>passed to a new process when it starts up.

The only documentation on image initialization we know of is in the
Run-Time library Reference Manual (AA-Z502B-TE).  Chapter 10 discusses
initialization, and the argument list passed to the main procedure
is described in section 10.1.2 and 10.1.4.  These descriptions are
rather vague.  They do mention that one of the arguments is
	image-info "Useful image information such as the program name"

There is also a passing reference to image initialization in the Guide to
Writing Modular Procedures.  That one is even less useful.
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