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From: [e-mail] (Mike McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: argv on VMS (was Re: Question on argv
Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:30:39 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>,
H. M. Hubey <[e-mail]> wrote:

)I have a related question on argc and argv[] on VMS.
)
)I have a problem getting VMS to accept the commanline argument
)to my program which expects one argument i.e. it should be
)of the form
)
)$ uedit junk.dat
)
)It works fine on Unix but not on VMS since VMS needs the "run"
)command so it becomes
)
)$ run uedit junk.dat
)
)so VMS apparently thinks that junk.dat modifies the run
)command. I tried things like
)
)$run uedit/input=junk.dat
)
)etc but it won't work. What's the  correct format for VMS?

This is not a "C" question, but a VMS question. In any case, the answer
is: install your command as a foreign command.

    $ uedit :== disk:[path]uedit.exe

Then when you type uedit, your command line arguments will be visible.

Mike
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char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}

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