A2

You can do this, but both the B-Prolog library and compiler in ``bp.out'' go with the application. The following tells you the trick:

1. Add the following predicate as the first predicate into your program:

   
           top:-
              initialize_bp,
              get_main_args(L),
              call_you_program.
   

   where initialize_bp initializes the B-Prolog system (symbol tables, global variables, etc.), and get_main_args(L) fetches the command arguments into L as a list of atoms.

2. Compile your program. Assume it is myprog.out.

3. Modify the shell script file bp as follows and save it into another file, say mybp.

		 		   exec $BPDIR/Emulator/bprolog ... $BPDIR/bp.out 

		 		 		 		 		 		 $\Downarrow$ 


exec $BPDIR/Emulator/bprolog ... myprog.out $BPDIR/bp.out

In this way, your program rather than the B-Prolog interpreter will be executed first. In Version 3.1 or newer, you can use the bi-directional interface with C to build stand-alone applications.