From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!noao!arizona!arizona.edu!east.pima.edu!rharwood From: rharwood@east.pima.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Reading command line in Alsys Ada on AIX? Message-ID: <1991May28.205330.1@east.pima.edu> Date: 29 May 91 03:53:30 GMT References: <2841f33e.3e3b@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Distribution: usa List-Id: In article <2841f33e.3e3b@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>, jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes: > I've asked this all around our campus, and no one knows the answer, so > I'm trying a little further afield... > > We use Alsys Ada under AIX/370. I want to read the command line arguments > from my Ada program. I know how to do it in Verdix Ada, but there doesn't > seem to be any information available as to how it's done in Alsys. Anyone versed in more than 1 computing platform and professing to write portable code owes it to themselves to download the CLI.* and CLI2.* files from the PD2: directory at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil. They provide an implementation of argc and argv for several environments, all used in the Portable Text Formatter (and other ASR routines, I'd bet!) ----- Ray Harwood |Data Basix |Associate Faculty, Voice: (602)721-1988 |PO Box 18324 | Pima Community College FAX: (602)721-7240 |Tucson, AZ 85731 |Instructor in Ada and Pascal CompuServe: 76645,1370|AppleLink: DATA.BASIX|Internet: rharwood@east.pima.edu