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From: hsw@TYCHO.ARPA (Howard Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: C on VMS
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Date: 22 Jan 88 21:02:00 GMT
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I am a UNIX C programmer and have just recently been playing around with
a VMS system and a C Compiler running on it.  Unfortunately, I don't
have any documentation of the VMS C compiler and I'm having trouble
doing something that seems quite natural to do - command line
argument processing.  I am able to compile and link programs so
that I have a resulting file (foo.exe) which I can then run using
the VMS 'run' command (r foo).  The problem I have it how do I pass
arguments into the program (i.e., UNIX-style, foo -w).  If I give
any args on the VMS 'run' command line, the system complains about
too many parameters.  In addition, touching argv in the C program
either gives bogus information or causes the program to bomb.

Anyone have any good info for me - any and all would be appreciated.

Please respond directly to me - I am not a regular reader of the mailing
list.

Thanks,

Howard Weiss
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