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- Routine name: GETCMD
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- Description: This routine is used in conjunction with compiled IBM
- Basic to retrieve the contents of the command line used
- to execute the the program. The parameter string may
- then be easily parsed by the Basic program itself.
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- Calling sequence:
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- CMD$=SPACE$(len) ' Establish string to receive command line
- CALL GETCMD (CMD$) ' Retrieve command line
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- Build sequence:
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- LINK BASPROG+GETCMD;
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- Note: The maximum number of characters returned is determined by the
- length of the string variable passed as a parameter on the CALL
- or by the actual length of the command line entered. The name
- of the program entered will have been stripped off by the DOS
- operating system.
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- i.e. If the DOS command line entered were:
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- RUNPROG THIS IS A SET OF PARAMETERS <enter>
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- Then the string returned to the Basic program would be:
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- "THIS IS A SET OF PARAMETERS"
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