w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (04/25/89)
Thanks to Karl Keyte <ESC1332%ESOC.BITNET> for uploading the following
file to Simtel20:
pd1:<msdos.c>CLP_V10.ARC General purpose 'C' command line processor
CLP, by Karl Keyte, is a shareware general purpose command line
processor for the 'C' language which eliminates the need for repeated
work in handling command line options and parameters in 'C' programs.
It provides a means by which the general format of the command line
may be defined in a Command Line Definition file (.CLD), and processed
by a single interface call. Following that call, values and settings
of parameters and switches may be queried by additional calls.
CLP has been tested with Turbo-C (2.0) and Microsoft C (5.1). The
'#include' file given conforms to ANSI standards, and should
therefore be accepted by any ANSI compiler. The object module
uses a standard 'C' parameter stack.
A compiler is provided which takes the Command Line Definition file
and generates a Command Line Library (.CLL) file which contains
definitions for ALL utilities using the CLP interface. The .CLD file
should be maintained by adding and deleting utilities from it as
required. Running the compiler will generate the full Library file
(.CLL) from the definitions.
Four functions are available to the caller. 'clp_accept' initializes
the CLP processor for a given program and command line. 'clp_get_spec'
returns the specification code for a particular parameter or switch
option. 'clp_get_value' returns the value associated with a parameter
or switch option if present. When parameter and switch processing has
been completed, the user may recover certain portions of system memory
by calling the procedure 'clp_release'.
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of Simtel20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives
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