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- From: Greg Thomas <thomasgd@btla1.te.bt.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: How to run a C program taking command line arguments on VMS
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 09:54:10 +0000
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- Lynn Mei wrote:
- >
- > Could someone tell me how to run a C program which takes command line
- > arguments on VAX/VMS? I have checked the FAQ about openVMS and tried the
- > instructions. But I couldn't get it work. I don't have an openVMS mannual.
- > Please help me!
- >
- > My program is like:...
- > If run on Unix or DOS, I could type something like
- > myprog -lu abcd
- > How to run it on VMS?
-
- Because the VMS 'RUN' command takes VMS based argments, you need to
- set up a foreign symbol:
- $ myprog == "$DISK:[DIRECTORY]MY_PROG.EXE"
- then just use
- $ myprog -lu abcd
- as you do on DOS/UNIX. This is detailed fairly clearly in the FAQ.
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