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In article <2444@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> jkg@gitpyr.UUCP (Jim Greenlee) writes:
>In article <623@A60.UUCP> lee@A60.UUCP (Gene Lee) writes:

>>
>>    Can anyone tell me how to get the Program name ( the name the
>> program was called by ) from Turbo Pascal?  Lattice C does it so
>>Gene Lee           UUCP: ...ihnp4!{meccts,dayton,rosevax}!ems!A60!lee
>>Sperry Corporation     ATT:  (612) 635-6334
>
>Turbo Pascal does not support equivalent procedures to the argv()
>and argc() functions found in most C (and in some Pascal) libraries.



What Mr. Greenlee must have meant was:

The revision of Turbo Pascal I have does not support.....etc.

In fact, TP version 3.0 provides two functions of interest to this discussion.

 1. number_of_space_delimited_parameters := ParamCount;
		and
 2. parameter_string := paramStr(which_parameter_would_you_like); {1,2,3..}

   for a command line like :
C>progname 1 two 3

   paramcount returns --->3
   paramstr(1)        --->1 (ascii char)
   paramstr(2)        --->two (ascii chars)
   etc.

Now, How do you get the equivalent of paramstr(0), or the filename of the
program???

             Ron

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Ron Burns
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