Long command arguments

Paul,

I'm still wating for a reply to my last posting on this, on 27-Feb. Although the new salflibc.dll that you sent seems to solve the problem for the release version, it does not work in the debugger. Is there a way around this or do I have to debug the old-fashioned way with write statements?

Regards,

Richard May

Richard

How long are your command lines?

Richard

I have had another look at this and it is not clear to me why there should be a difference when debugging.

I have increased the buffer size in other places just for good measure and I will send you another dll.

You could just check to make sure that you are not accessing an old copy of salflibc.dll when debugging.

If the next dll that I will send does not help then we will need details of how you are running the debugger (from a command line or Plato or VS) and perhaps also some sample code.

Paul,

This dll seems better. When I run the test program below in the debugger larg is reported correctly although the full string is not displayed.

  program argtest
  character*160 carg
  call get_command_argument(1,carg,larg)
  write(*,1001)carg

1001 format(a160) stop end

I compile this in command mode using FTN95 /check. I run it using the following batch file.

argtest '1abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx 2abcdefghijklmnopqrst vwx3abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx 4abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx5abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx 6abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx'

The argument is 150 long in groups of 25 characters with one space. In my file there are no carriage returns but this posting failed when I put the whole thing in as one word. I run the debugger from a command line as well, then paste the command above into the window.

This may seem a strange thing to worry about, but we sell analysis software to engineering consultancies. Modern engineers who have grown up with windows try to run our program in directories like c:\documents and settings\engineering\my documents\projects \company name\project title\hydrodynamics\model 1\low damping\results .... I'm sure you get the idea. When you drop a data file onto a desktop icon the entire path is passed to the program.

Richard