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From: fewellsj@vax.sbu.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: Command Line Parameters
Message-ID: <1995Jan17.171040.8865@vax.sbu.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Jan 95 17:10:40 GMT
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Keywords: command, parameters, library, ada
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Date: 1995-01-17T17:10:40+00:00
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In article <m-bartz-1701950936420001@macgalois.ee.memst.edu>, m-bartz@memphis.edu (Michael Bartz) writes:
> A very newbie question from a long-time C programmer:
> 
> Can you pass command line arguments to an Ada program?
> 
> How do you do it?
> 
Yes you can pass command line arguments.

How you do it, depends on what system you're using,
but on the vax you can use the pragma command to import a procedure
from the system called LIB$GET_FORRIGN, this allows you to access any
command line parameters passed.

Steve.