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From: fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us (Fred Smith)
Subject: Re: Problem compiling program with command-line arguments
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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:02:27 GMT
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Goh Yong Kwang (s6606555 AT mercury DOT np DOT ac DOT sg) wrote:

This is probably off-topic for this newsgroup, but what the heck....


: ===================================================
: #include <stdio.h>

: // This program prints out all arguments passed to it from the command. 

: main(char *argv[], char argc){

Bingo! You've got the parameters backwrds, the first one is the argument
count (argc) and the second one the argument vector. Also note that
argc is an int, not a char. It should read:

main(int argc, char *argv[]){


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