How can I compile program to use command line arguments
 

How can I compile program to use command line arguments?
for example:

./a.out -filename

Compiler is g77.
thanks!

I don't know how it works in fortran but, as it's service provided by the OS, similar mechanism must exist. In C, the entry point is always the function called "main", and the system give to this function two parameters: the first one is an integer and the second one is an array of strings, the number of strings in the array is given by the first parameter. The function prototype is:
The first string of the second parameter is the program name typed in the command line. Then if you type "./a.out -t foo -v bar", then the system will pass to your main function:
argc = 5
argv[0] = "./a.out"
argv[1] = "-t"
argv[2] = "foo"
argv[3] = "-v"
argv[4] = "bar"
The standard C library provide an helper to ease the arguments handling, its name is "getopt", "man 3 getopt" will give you all the details you need.

Thank you for your answer!
Well, now I have basic idea how it works, but fortran is quite different story. Can someone tell me more??

Hi -

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.6/g77/

Look for "GetArg" and "IArgC" intrinsics.

This is realy simple, just call:
call getarg(n, arg)
,where:

integer n -is number of argument
character (len= ..) arg -is n-th argument

For example, this:

character (len=10) arg
call getarg(2, arg)
print*, arg
end

with this:

./a.out aaa bbb

gives output:

bbb

Thank you for your help.