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  2. From: glenn@ov.com (Fletcher.Glenn@ov.com)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Command line arguments
  5. Date: 8 Mar 1996 21:21:42 GMT
  6. Organization: OpenVision
  7. Message-ID: <4hq8d6$1k1@spanky.pls.ov.com>
  8. References: <4hjmpi$cuc_003@res-hall.nwu.edu>
  9. Reply-To: glenn@ov.com
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  11.  
  12. In article 003@res-hall.nwu.edu, sen@nwu.edu (Subhro K. Sen) writes:
  13. >I want to pass a filename to a C program for reading (and or writing).
  14. >How do I grab this command line argument from within the program?
  15. >
  16. >Thanks!
  17. >
  18. >
  19. >--
  20. >sen@nwu.edu                                         s u b h r o  s e n
  21. >http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/~sksen/                northwestern university
  22. >PGP key: finger sksen@merle.acns.nwu.edu      2245 sheridan road, #409
  23. >phone: (847)332-5252                          evanston, illinois 60201
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  27. In your C language textbook, look up argc and argv, the main routine
  28. default arguments.
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  30.             Fletcher.Glenn@ov.com
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