Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!yale!cmcl2!arizona!robert
From: robert@arizona.edu (Robert J. Drabek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS global symbols (really foreign commands)
Message-ID: <4738@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 88 15:24:33 GMT
References: <1181@csun.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
Lines: 21
Keywords: passing parameters
Summary: solution

In article <1181@csun.UUCP>, mst@csun.UUCP (Mike Temkin) writes:
> I have a few programs that need command line parameters passed to them.
> 
> I see no difference between typing 'RUN PROGRAM' and setting a global
> symbol like 'PRG :== RUN PROGRAM 'P1 'P2' then typing 'PRG param1 param2'.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

You need to create "foreign commands" with

  PRG :== $MYDISK:[MYDIR]MYPRG

Then you can execute MYPRG as you desired.  (MYDISK and MYDIR are
where your executable is located.  SHOW DEFAULT will give you a
hint about the correct names really are.)

-- 
Robert J. Drabek
Department of Computer Science
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ  85721