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From: raw@math.arizona.edu (Rich Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: command line argument in Fortran?
Keywords: command line,options,getopt
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Date: 11 Mar 90 08:26:29 GMT
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In article <900310015025.24a08b20@Romeo.Caltech.Edu> xiaohe@CitRomeo.BITNET (Xiao-He Zhang) writes:
>
>Greetings!
>
>    I have a question: can Fortran programs be compiled to take command line
>arguments like C, with or without some tricks?  In other words, can I have
>   a.out -argument(s)    ?
>
>Thank you very much in advance!


The FORTRAN on SUN's (UNIX) has a (non-standard) function called getopt that
returns the command line arguments kinda like C.  There is also a very nice
C function called optarg (?).  Try reading the man page intro(3F).  It should
list any non-standard functions/porcedures like this.


			Richard Walter

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