running an exe with an option

[labadie_1]

I have an .exe that I run as
$ myexe :== $ disk:myexe
$ myexe par1 par2 par3

If I want to run it with /nodebug, my parameters will be messed in the program.

Apart from modifying the source code, if somebody has a smart idea to run it.

I tried
$ myexe/nodebug par1 par2 par3
and
$ myexe par1 par2 par3/nodebug

but it messes my parameters.

[Ian Miller. · Accepted solution]

you could change the image header with
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?SET_EXE
to turn off running with debug

[Ian Miller.]

I think this feature (change DEBUG flag in image header) may be on the the list to get added to VMS as a proper command.

[Willem Grooters]

gerard,

perhpas use TWO foreign symbols: on to run the program WITH debug, the other without:

myexe :== $disk:myexe/NODEBUG
myexed :== $disk:myexe/DEBUG

Willem

[Uwe Zessin]

That does not work for me:

$ a=="$sys$login:a/nodebug"
$ a

OpenVMS Alpha Debug64 Version V7.3-200

%DEBUG-I-INITIAL, Language: C, Module: A
%DEBUG-I-NOTATMAIN, Type GO to reach MAIN program

DBG>


On VAX I once received code for a 'dummy debugger', so I could do:
$ define lib$debug dev:[dir]ddbg.exe
$ foreign_cmd

[Amit Levin_2]

Hi, I would try:
$ link/nodeb myexe
$ myexe:= $myexe.exe
$ myexe par1 par2 ...

[Antoniov.]

Hi Labadie,
to execute debugger session with parameters you could:
$ MYEXE=="$MYEXE.EXE"
$ DEBUG/KEEP
$ RUN/COMMAND="MYEXE"/ARG="PAR1 PAR2 PAR3"
$ GO
You can define DBG$INIT to a debug startup command file as follow:
$ TYPE SYS$INPUT /OUT=MYDEBUG_STARTUP.COM
GO
GO
^Z
$ When debug start, execute GO twice time and program start immediatly. At end you need type EXIT to return back DCL.

H.T.H.
Antonio Vigliotti