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From: "Paulo Santana" <san AT formata DOT com DOT br>
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 09:22:33 -0200
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DP> My next obstacle is passing more than 9 parameters to it - any ideas?

Ops. Now I noticed you have to pass the parameters from inside a Pascal
program. You have two options:

1. Find a procedure to set DOS environment variables from Pascal. You should
find that easily at SWAG or the Turbo Pascal Programmer's Page
(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jprins/tp.html);

2. What always worked for me was to actually make the Pascal program WRITE
the batch file I was going to call, so that I could create it with all the
parameters set. So, arguably, you could write a batch file like this:

Var
  T : Text;
  Param10, Param11 : String;

  Assign (T,"PREPENV.BAT");
  Rewrite (T);

  If (IOResult = 0) then
  Begin
    Writeln (T,'SET PARAM10=' + Param10);
    Writeln (T,'SET PARAM11=' + Param11);
    Writeln (T,'CALL MYBAT.BAT');
    Close (T);
  End;

And then you'd call "PREPENV.BAT" from your Pascal program, which would set
the environment variables, and then call your original batch file in turn.

Of course that, now knowing this, you could actually write the whole batch
file self-contained, with no need to pass parameters at all. It's your call
to develop from there.

Atenciosamente,
Paulo Santana

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