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In article <859@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen) writes:
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    >interface is also clean. To get the values, you only have to issue the 
    >following call.
    >
    >	call dcl$get_value ("input_area", string_variable)
    >
    >and you have it. Easy, no? So, next time, ask someone about a feature you
    		  ^^^^^^^^^ in a word **NO**. To write a program asking
    about the calling sequence instead of typing the command at the prompt
    is not by any stretch of definition "easy".

This is not a program to ask about the calling sequence.  This is a call back 
to DCL to get the value of one of the parameters.  To translate, the above is
roughly eqivalent to:

	strcpy (string_variable, argv[INPUT_AREA]);
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