From:	Darren Noble <darren AT calderathin DOT com>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Command Line parameters
Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:34:32 -0600
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On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> Could someone show me an example of command line parameters, please.  I'm
> working on a project that would have input like:
> 
> program_name parameter1 parameter2 parameter3
> 
> That sort of thing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom Beauchamp

when you declare main use the following syntax:

main(int argc, char argv[])

argc is the number of arguments that are being passed in.
argv[] is a 2 dimesionall array of chars.  0 is the path and the program name
of the program being ran.

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