davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu (01/07/91)
In article <16531@cs.utexas.edu>, psurge@cs.utexas.edu (Troy Carpenter) writes: > How does one get a program in either of these languages to use arguments passed > from the command line. Personal Pascal 2 has special subprograms (called CMD_ARGS and CMD_GETARG()) to perform this function. They were also available in Personal Pascal 1. usage is describe on page 6-198 of the PP 2 manual and 6-94 of the PP 1 manual. Basically: Cmd_Args is an integer function which returns the number of arguments in the TOS command line buffer. Cmd_GetArg( i, request) is a procedure which assigns the requested command line argument to the argument ('request' is a string variable, 'i' is an integer. As for Modula-2, it would depend upon WHICH Modula-2 compiler you were using and the nature of the libraries included with the compiler. -- David Paschall-Zimbel davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu