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From: Kushall.henr@XEROX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Reading CPM/86 Command Line
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 09:39:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 09:39:39 1985
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I have been using the following method for reading the command line
arguments from Turbo Pascal. (CP/M-86 version 2.0, Turbo Pascal version
2.0)

Declare the following global variable:
var

   CmdLine : String[128] absolute(DSeg:$80); { this is the location of
the CP/M 86 Command line buffer}

   CmdLineString : String[128]; { used to save the command line }

You must execute the following code before your program does any IO and
destroys the buffer !

CmdLineString := CmdLine; { Copies the command line args into the safe
area}

Note that if length(CmdLine) = 0 then no args were passed.
The data format of Dseg:$80 is as follows:
The byte at Dseg:$80 is the nunber of characters passed in the cmd line
after the name of the .CMD file called including the leading space. This
will be CmdLine[0] in the Turbo Pascal string. Thus the string is
returned by CP/M in the same format as required by Turbo.

The same method can be used for CP/M 80 except the declaration is:
CmdLine : String[128] Absolute $80;

And for MS-DOS
CmdLine : String[128] Absolute(CSeg:$80);

It is my understanding that the CP/M-80 versions only allow a limited
number of characters to be passed as arguments(arround 30) I have not
verified this for any of the implementations.

Turbo Pascal 3.0 includes 'standard' procedures for reading the command
line arguments.

Ed Kushall