Can I pass command line arguments to LV6 executables?

Hi,
in Document ID: 1CNFGHFI I read that
"LabVIEW 5.x executables cannot take command line arguments. (...) Support for command line arguments may be available in the next major release of LabVIEW."
Is that so in LV6? It would be a good reason to update because I'd terribly need it.
Cheers,
Daniel

I am unable to find the original one that Dennis posted. The following is the same, but for LabVIEW 6:
Getting Command Line Arguments from within a LabVIEW VI
Regards;
Enrique
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