Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!4203_5021
From: 4203_5021@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Using CLI routines & Modula-2
Message-ID: <5277.25f92d46@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 10 Mar 90 21:37:26 GMT
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I am writing some modula-2 code for a VAX-6330 and I need some assistance
using VAX Command Language (CLI) routines with my program.

Here's what I would like to do:

Run a program and grab the first parameter on the command-line
into an ARRAY of CHAR in my program.

Here's what I'm using:

A modula-2 compiler that I KNOW is NOT mocka.
   The module's it uses always have the following, if it is any help:
               Fachbereich Informatik
               Universitaet Hamburg
               D-2000 Hamburg 13

Here's what I've done:

I have located the following module:
        COMMANDLA.DEF              (where .IMP is, I don't know)
 It EXPORTS the following:
        PROCEDURE CLI$PRESENT
        PROCEDURE CLI$GETVALUE
        PROCEDURE CLI$DISPATCH
        PROCEDURE CLI$DCL_PARSE

I know I have to set the following alias:
      $name :== "(drive&directory)name.exe"

I want to run the program as:
      $name parameter

I have tried to call CLI$PRESENT and CLI$GETVALUE in my 
program after importing them from CommandLanguageInterface.

It compiled. It linked. It crashed.

I have alse heard i have to set up a "subcommand.cld" file.
I have tried this, but couldn't get this to work.

(I tried to write one, then use 
   $SET COMMAND SUBCOMMANDS/OBJECT=SUBCOMMANDS       )

ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
I have next to no documentation on how to do this.

Thanks.

Patrick Bradd                     The University of Western Ontario
                                  Computer Science
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Patrick Bradd                          "Before you kill somebody,
4203_5021@uwovax.uwo.ca                    make absolutely sure he
                                           isn't well connected....
                                        So it goes." <K.V.>
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