Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior. These arguments are available in the string array argument passed into the application’s static main() ...

(The below post is brought to you from years of being irritated by other programmers' quirky command line syntax, and my acknowledgement that for many small apps, doing it "right" can take up way too ...

Simply put, I'm attempting to pass arguments from the command line and access them through LISP. To note, I'm using Allegro Common Lisp from the shell (not emacs).<BR><BR>At any rate, I read somewhere ...