Re: TIB: Question about programs themselves

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Subject: Re: TIB: Question about programs themselves
From: TGaArdvark@aol.com
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 02:32:04 EDT
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> What are command line parameters?

They're like variables the user sets when the user runs the program.
On the TI-89, if you had a program that multiplied 2 numbers together,
you could type "multiply(2,3)" (assuming you named the program
multiply) and the program would know you wanted it to use 2 and 3
in whatever it's supposed to do (multiply in this case).  In DOS,
the parameters are space separated and often commands.  Like
in PKZip, if you wanted to zip c:\temp and call it temp.zip, you
would type "pkzip c:\temp temp.zip" and PKZip would do the rest.

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