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I agree. Question is too general and a new thread is needed. I addressed it in an answer below. Good attempt @MARS; Please LMK if my answer is off base!
ok thanks for the checking information. I was reading in the C book about argv[0] being the programming name, so apologies for not making use of that in the question. how do I access the information passed in as argv[1] and argv[2]?
