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Article #307Re: How to run a C program taking command line arguments on VMS
From: Greg Thomas
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 09:54
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 09:54
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Lynn Mei wrote: > > Could someone tell me how to run a C program which takes command line > arguments on VAX/VMS? I have checked the FAQ about openVMS and tried the > instructions. But I couldn't get it work. I don't have an openVMS mannual. > Please help me! > > My program is like:... > If run on Unix or DOS, I could type something like > myprog -lu abcd > How to run it on VMS? Because the VMS 'RUN' command takes VMS based argments, you need to set up a foreign symbol: $ myprog == "$DISK:[DIRECTORY]MY_PROG.EXE" then just use $ myprog -lu abcd as you do on DOS/UNIX. This is detailed fairly clearly in the FAQ. -- Greg Thomas --- Tel (01473) 224832 Fax (01473) 233319 --- Any opinions expressed are mine, not necessarily those of the company I work for.
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