RE: Passing Parms

How do you do it from a command line though? to test the process?


On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:33:13 -0600, Rubino, Jim wrote
> I have always passed dates as alpha and converted them in the 
> program to the correct format and numeric.  Then you can call your 
> program with the date in single quotes as a parm.
> 
> Jim
> 
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> Subject: Passing Parms
> 
> I still struggle with the issue of passing date parms to a program....
> 
> Is there a specific format that they must be in? the user is going to
> enter it as a type *USA, but it seems like at least from the command
> line I can never get them to pass correctly.
> 
> Suggestions or hints?
> 
> If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
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If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.