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From: ERICMC@USU.BITNET (Eric McQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Wild card expansion under VAX11-C: Code Wanted
Message-ID: <8803041924.AA23968@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 88 04:55:00 GMT
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In article <5361@ames.arpa> woo@pioneer.UUCP (Alex Woo) writes:
> How does one expand wildcards in command line arguments in
> VAX11-C under VMS?

I have a tool for C programmers using VMS, especially those porting facilities
from Un*x.  It prompts for command line arguments (unless you have already
specified some via a "foreign command" or MCR), expands file wildcards found on
the command line, and redirects `stdin' or `stdout'.  Here's a sample use:

main( argc, argv )
  int argc;
  char **argv;
{
  /* local variables */
#ifdef VAXC     /* Or whatever the ANSI-X3J11-conforming word will be */
  extern char **cmd_lin();
        argv = cmd_lin( "", argc, argv );
        /* The first argument provides misc. options (not currenly used). */
#endif
        /* your routine */
}