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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: C on VMS
Message-ID: <880125025532.00g@CitHex.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 25 Jan 88 11:02:01 GMT
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 > 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.

There are at least four ways of doing this:
1)  Define the program as a foreign command; i.e.:
        $ foo:==$sys$login:foo
    Then invoke the program with:
        $ foo -w
2)  Use MCR instead of run; i.e.:
        $ MCR sys$login:foo -w
3)  Use LIB$GET_FOREIGN to read the command line and process it yourself
4)  Use the CLI routines to parse the command line

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