From 2ed253d417a76c181b5225e0b9f11e9d168bf785 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cuz <cuz@b7a2c559-68d2-44c3-8de9-860c34a00d81>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:08:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Command line arguments are now supported

git-svn-id: svn://svn.cc65.org/cc65/trunk@2999 b7a2c559-68d2-44c3-8de9-860c34a00d81
---
 doc/c16.sgml   | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 doc/plus4.sgml | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/c16.sgml b/doc/c16.sgml
index d950940be..95998e5c0 100644
--- a/doc/c16.sgml
+++ b/doc/c16.sgml
@@ -200,7 +200,22 @@ library, because the latter does not support interrupts needed by the driver.
 
 <sect1>Passing arguments to the program<p>
 
-Command line argument passing is currently not supported for the C16/C116.
+Command line arguments can be passed to <tt/main()/. Since this is not
+supported by BASIC, the following syntax was choosen:
+
+<tscreen><verb>
+    RUN:REM ARG1 " ARG2 IS QUOTED" ARG3 "" ARG5
+</verb></tscreen>
+
+<enum>
+<item>Arguments are separated by spaces.
+<item>Arguments may be quoted.
+<item>Leading and trailing spaces around an argument are ignored. Spaces within
+      a quoted argument are allowed.
+<item>The first argument passed to <tt/main/ is the program name.
+<item>A maximum number of 10 arguments (including the program name) are
+      supported.
+</enum>
 
 
 <sect1>Program return code<p>
diff --git a/doc/plus4.sgml b/doc/plus4.sgml
index 4d9a9d909..41bcd0262 100644
--- a/doc/plus4.sgml
+++ b/doc/plus4.sgml
@@ -201,7 +201,23 @@ does not exist).
 
 <sect1>Passing arguments to the program<p>
 
-Command line argument passing is currently not supported for the Plus/4.
+Command line arguments can be passed to <tt/main()/. Since this is not
+supported by BASIC, the following syntax was choosen:
+
+<tscreen><verb>
+    RUN:REM ARG1 " ARG2 IS QUOTED" ARG3 "" ARG5
+</verb></tscreen>
+
+<enum>
+<item>Arguments are separated by spaces.
+<item>Arguments may be quoted.
+<item>Leading and trailing spaces around an argument are ignored. Spaces within
+      a quoted argument are allowed.
+<item>The first argument passed to <tt/main/ is the program name.
+<item>A maximum number of 10 arguments (including the program name) are
+      supported.
+</enum>
+
 
 
 <sect1>Program return code<p>
-- 
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