shell programming

I want to send more than 9 parms to a script .. it doesn't like the 10th parm :( asume $1 = "blue" ------------------- inside the script ....... ....... echo $5 >> $7/lineinfo; echo $8 >> $7/lineinfo; echo $9 >> $7/lineinfo; #the tenth parm echo $10 >> $7/lineinfo; #the above line outputs "blue0" echo "$10" >> $7/lineinfo; #the above line outputs "blue0" as well How do i refer 2 the 10th parm passed to a shell script ? any help would be apriciated, thanx Cape Town, South Africa