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- ARGS Library Documentation
-
- ARGS gives the user access to the command line and optionally
- redirects the standard input and/or output.
-
-
- FUNCTIONS
-
- setargs()
- If access to the command line or I/O redirection is
- wanted, setargs() must be called BEFORE ANY DISK I/O
- IS DONE. This is because the disk operations can
- overwrite the command line. setargs() parses the
- command line, which is a series of items separated by
- one or more spaces. A '<' followed by a file name will
- redirect the standard input (used by getchar() and
- gets()) to that file. A '>' followed by a file name
- will similarly redirect the standard output (used by
- putchar() and puts()). If the file exists, it will be
- silently deleted. '>>' followed by a file name will
- also redirect the standard output, but if the file
- already exists then the new characters will be appended
- to the existing data. In any of the above cases, one
- or more spaces can appear before the file name. Items
- other than the above are saved for later access by
- getarg(). As far as getarg() is concerned, I/O
- redirection commands are invisible. Regardless of I/O
- redirection, err() will always display its message and
- walkback trace (if any) on the console, putc(c,1) or
- putc(c,STDERR) will always send the character c to
- the console, and getc(0) will always get a character
- from the keyboard.
- getarg(n,s,size) int n; char *s; int size;
- places in s the n-th argument. Returns s if successful
- or, if there was no n-th argument, returns -1. Assumes
- s has "size" bytes. The 0-th argument, which under Unix
- would be the name by which the program was invoked, is
- always "*".
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-
- INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION
-
- setargs() uses alloc() to allocate its buffer.
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- AUTHOR
-
- These programs were written by Jan-Henrik Johansson
- (Dr. Dobb's Journal no 74 p 62) and extensively
- rewritten by J. R. Van Zandt
-