Args to C progs??

[Daniel Chan]

>From: mitchemt at silver.bacs.indiana.edu
>Date: 4 Mar 89 22:57:00 GMT
>Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington


>     I am writing a program in Turbo C and would like to know how to pass
> arguments to it from the command line after it is compiled to a .exe file.

>I have tried:

>main(arg1)
>char *arg1;
>{
>......
> /* do something with arg1 here */
>.....
>}

>Unfortunately, the program doesn't seem to recognize arg1. If I pass it a 
>string arg1 is just empty. Any help is appreciated. I just want to pass a 
>string to the program.  
>                       Thanks in advance,
>                                 TM

Have you tried the following:

main (argc, argv)
int argc;	/* total number of arguements including program name itself */
char *argv[];   /* an array of strings */
{
 ...
}

The command line arguments can then be accessed by argv[1], argv[2], ...,
 argv[argc-1].

Hope that will work in Turbo C.

-dan.