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> From: James Rich > > > the lack of bidirectional program parameters. > > Huh??? This has always existed. Not identical to OS/400, but the ability > is certainly there. Not bidirectionally. > *entry plists type passing is also there. Again, not identical in > implementation but the same thing functionally. The command line consists > of : > > command <parm1> <parm2> ... > > The parmN are passed to the command. That is what the argc and argv > parameters are in every C main() function. Rudimentary syntax checking is > done by using getopt() which also neatly parses the arguments for you. <smile> I've written one or two C programs in my time, James. I understand the concept of the main() methods and the argc/argv parameters. The issue is bidirectionality - you can't modify those parameters and return values to the calling program. This makes emulating a typical OS/400 application a bit tricky. Joe
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