I'm trying to get the parameters issued to my TP7 program via the system
variable CmdLine, but when I try to access it, I get the error "Error 3 -
Unknown Identifier" in any references to CmdLine.

It  should be  inside  the System Unit ...
Any ideas?.

In article <01bcf433$d0efb0d0$6d646480@pc01077>, =?iso-
8859-1?q?Jes=FAs_Consuegra?= <jconsue...@redestb.es> writes

If you want individual parameters then paramstr(x) will give you the x
parameter as a string. ParamCount holds the number of parameters given
on the command line to the program.

If you want to have all the parameters to your program in one string
then something like :

var ParString : string;
var i : byte;
begin
     parString := '';
     for i := 1 to ParamCount do ParString := ParString+' '+ParamStr(i);
end.

Will put all the command line parameters into one string with a space
between each parameter.
--
Pedt Scragg <postmas...@pedt.demon.co.uk>

In article <01bcf433$d0efb0d0$6d646480@pc01077>,

cdmline=^string;

cmdline:=ptr(prefixseg,128);

and then use cmdline^

Osmo

Jess Consuegra <jconsue...@redestb.es> wrote in article
<01bcf433$d0efb0d0$6d646480@pc01077>...

Tried compiling Begin Writeln(CmdLine); End. and it worked when the target
was Windows but not when it was Real or Protected mode. So it looks like a
windows-only feature.

In DOS you'll have to use the string variable at prefixseg:$80, but be sure
to copy it somewhere more permanent early in the program.

Type pString = ^String; { you probably have this already }
Var CmdLine : String; { confusing variable name }
Begin
  CmdLine := pString(Ptr(PrefixSeg, $80))^;
  ... rest of program ...
End.

That works in real & protected modes

In article <01bcf433$d0efb0d0$6d646480@pc01077> of Tue, 18 Nov 1997
15:08:51 in comp.lang.pascal.borland, =?iso-8859-1?q?Jes=FAs_Consuegra?=

In article <5TvSPIANphc0E...@pedt.demon.co.uk>,
Pedt Scragg  <postmas...@pedt.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Find "    " *.*

How would your solution work?

If one needs the command line one needs the command line and not some
recollection from already prepared data.

In article <01bcf47e$9c229520$LocalHost@fp>,

The feature that paramcount and paramstr inspect the area can be sued to
split arbitrary string into words by writing that string into the
command line area (remember to restore the original one after doing that.

 126643 Nov 14 1997 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip
 tsfaqp.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers

18. *****
 Q: How can I obtain the entire command line (spaces and all)?

 A: ParamCount and ParamStr are for parsed parts of the command line
and cannot be used to get the command line exactly as it was. See
what happens if you try to capture
  "Hello.   I'm here"
you'll end up with a false number of blanks. For obtaining the
command line unaltered use
  type CommandLineType = string[127];
  var  CommandLinePtr  : ^CommandLineType;
  begin
    CommandLinePtr := Ptr(PrefixSeg, $80);
    writeln (CommandLinePtr^);
  end;
A warning. If you want to get this correct (the same goes for TP's
own ParamStr and ParamCount) apply them early in your program. At
least they must be used before any disk I/O takes place!
:
A related example demonstrating a function giving the number of
characters on the command line
  function CMDNBRFN : byte;
  var paramPtr : ^byte;
  begin
    paramPtr := Ptr (PrefixSeg, $80);
    cmdnbrfn := paramPtr^
  end;  (* cmdnbrfn *)
For the contents of the Program Segment Prefix (PSP) see Tischer,
Michael (1992), PC Intern System Programming, p. 753.
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   All the best, Timo

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In article <656043$...@majakka.uwasa.fi>,

In article <656li3$...@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>,

:This must be a joke. One should not generalize principles learned from
:low level languages like Assembler to HLL like Pascal.

Osmo, don't worry. I would not dream of stooping to a low level in
my programming.

   All the best, Timo  (aka Perfesser Pundit in news:rec.humor)

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