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- From: rca@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert C Allender)
- Subject: QUESTION: Turbo vs. Standard Pascal
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.025507.29741@uwm.edu>
- Originator: rca@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:55:07 GMT
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- I have been helplessly thrown from the serene and secure pond of my PC to the
- unforgiving, terrorizing ocean of the campus mainframe. Spoiled by DOS in my
- youth, I now pay the price as I peer into the vast, black reaches of UNIX. I
- find quickly that many of the Turbo Pascal functions that I knew and loved
- are no longer to be taken for granted. The warm, blue interface now reduced
- to a chilling, black and grey command line...but without TP's ParamCount, how
- do I read command-line arguments into my standard Pascal program? Say, for
- instance, that I just want to echo a file to stdout. How do you get the
- <options> <filename> from:
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- csh> myprog <options> <filename>
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- into the program?
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- P.S. By the by, does vi stand for "virtually impossible?"
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- Thanks for help on either topic.
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- * Rob Allender - rca@csd4.csd.uwm.edu *
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- * The one thing Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about *
- * humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very *
- * obvious, as in "It's a nice day" or "You're very tall" or "Oh dear, you *
- * seem to have fallen down a 30-foot well, are you all right?" *
- * - The Hitchhiker's Guide *
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