Command line arguments

peter at baylor.UUCP peter at baylor.UUCP
Fri Mar 7 12:26:27 AEST 1986


>     Like the Macintosh, where (despite Apple Computers) C seems to be the
> de-facto programming language.  Under the Finder (read: Shell), running a 
> program is done by double-clicking the icon representing the program with
> the mouse, and arguments may be passed by shift-clicking the appropriate
> file icons before double-clicking the program icon.  Command lines?  What
> command lines?  Do you see any command lines?

Yes. The "command line" is the list of files involved, and a good
implementation of 'C' will have the run_time library load up argv
with the values before calling main(). Are there any such things?
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-- Peter da Silva
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