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Automate pascal program command line input

Asked by james_j_hedges in Pascal Programming Language, Windows Batch Scripting, VB Script

I am looking to automate a pascal program to accept the readlnI() input automatically either via a parameter file or as parameters when the program is executed on the command line.

I am not really familiar with pascal and I am wondering how best to modify this source code such that the program will accept it's 'input' and 'output' filenames as parameters or if no parameters are supplied, prompt for the user to input them as the program is executing.
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Program SPMake;
var
  f : text;
  w : text;
  In_file : String[12];
  In_pref : String[8];
  out_file : String[12];
  lines   : longint;
  suffix  : String[3];
  Alldone : Boolean;
  file_no : integer;
  c : char;
  asc : longint;
 
begin
  Write('Name of SPOOL files -> ');
  Readln(In_file);
  if (length(In_file)=0) or (pos('.',In_file)>0) then
  begin
    writeln('Invalid SPOOL file name.');
    halt;
  end;
 
  Write('File to be created -> ');
  Readln(Out_file);
 
  if (length(Out_file)=0) or (pos('.',Out_file)>9)
  or ((pos('.',In_file)=0) and (length(In_file)>8)) 
  or (length(Out_file)>12)   then
  begin
    writeln('Invalid output file name.');
    halt;
  end;
  In_Pref:=In_file;
 
  Assign(w, out_file);
  Rewrite(w);
    
 
 
  Alldone := False;
 
  file_no:=0;
  while not alldone do 
  Begin
    file_no:=file_no+1;
    str(file_no,suffix);
    while length(suffix)<3 do suffix:='0'+suffix;
 
    In_file:=In_pref+'.'+suffix;  
    Assign(f, In_file);
    {$I-}
    Reset(f);
    {$I+}
    If IOResult<>0 then
    begin
      Alldone:=True;
      if suffix='001' then 
      begin
        write('File ',in_file,' not found.');
        halt;
      end;
    end else
    begin  
      lines:=0;
      writeln('Reading ', In_file, ' into ',out_file);
      while not eof(f)  do
      begin
        read(f,c);
        asc:=ord(c);
        if (asc>9) and (asc<>29) then write(w,c);
 
        {if (asc>= 13) and (asc <= 126) then write(w,c);}
      end;
      close(f);
      erase(f);
    end;
  end;    
  Close(w);
  Writeln('Files combined.');
end.
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