Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!cy
From: cy@killer.UUCP (Cyrus Foughty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Commandline args in VAX "C"
Message-ID: <3131@killer.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 04:01:27 GMT
Organization: Association for the Revival of Electron Tube Computing: ARETC
Lines: 18


VMS is wierd in the way it handles "C" command line args. 
Take "foo.exe" and assign it like this:

	foo :== "$ your_logical_disk:[directory]foo.exe"

VMS thinks any "C" program is "foreign" and so we treat it like a 
"foreign" program. Now you can type in:

foo arg1 arg2 ... argN

Oh, the number one thing is that the "$" must be first after the 
double-quote character.
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