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From: dave@terminus.UUCP (VAX Headroom @ The End of the Galaxy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: XMODEM for VMS and VAX C command input
Summary: VAXC command line input is easy
Message-ID: <39@terminus.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 04:06:11 GMT
References: <8801271818.AA02217@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <2435@crash.cts.com>
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If you define your invoking command like the following:

prog:==$ $disk:[directory]file

and then invoke it like this:
prog param1 5 7

Then argc will contain 4 and argv[0] will contain the pathname of the
program while argv[1] to argv[3] will contain param1 5 and 7 respectively.

This makes moving programs from unix enviroments easy although I usually
convert them to the CLD syntax anyway as I prefer the parsing (and the
consistency) of using DCL command lines.

the arg stuff should be declared like this:
main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
blah blah blah
}
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