Re: Parameter passing

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From: Kent Fiala
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1992 21:35

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On Mon, 8 Jun 1992 12:01:02 EST <TW@UMAB.BITNET> said:
>I'd like to invoke an xedit profile such  as:
>
>   xedit filename filetype (prof myprof) parms to my profile
>
>and not have "parms to my profile" not chopped up into 8 byte tokens.
>Any ideas?
>
>- Tom

I don't think you can avoid it.  Probably the best solution I've seen to
the limitation is to pass the arguments via GLOBALV instead.

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