[Coco] (D)ECB and command-line arguments

[Mark McDougall]

Hi again gurus,

I was thinking about ways of passing arguments to Coco binary executables 
from (D)ECB.

The obvious way is to use USR1() but that requires DEFUSR and knowing the 
EXEC address, or at least PEEKing the values from RAM. You are also 
restricted to a single integer parameter.

I had the idea of using something like:

EXEC :arg1, arg2, ...

where the ML program would then parse the BASIC line input buffer to extract 
the arguments. Would've been nice, but it seems EXEC doesn't accept the 
colon as a trailing statement separator.

I guess you could do something like this:

ARG$="arg1, arg2, ..."
EXEC

and then have the ML search the BASIC string table (assuming it hasn't been 
trashed). Would that be doable?

Anyone else got any ideas?

Regards,

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