[Coco] OS-9 question: Command line arguments?

[Fedor Steeman]

Thanks, Gene!

Cool! Sure the handling of arguments is up to the program, but here I am
wondering how exactly they are passed? Does OS-9 store arguments on a
standard location in memory for programs to access? Or is there a pointer
stored in one of the registers? Or does the program itself figure out where
the command line prompt is and read the arguments directly from video
memory?

Cheers,
Fedor

2008/5/20 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:

> On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Fedor Steeman wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >As someone completely unaware of the blessings of OS-9, I was just
> >wondering...
> >
> >Does OS-9 support command line arguments when executing programs?
> >
> >Thanks for any enlightening answers...
> >
> >Fedor
>
> Generally yes Fedor, but all the shell does is pass the arguments, its up
> to
> the program to handle them.
>
> Doing an "xmode /t2 bau=6" is one example if that is what you were asking.
>
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