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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Get process name w/o using argv[0] in C function?
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Date: 6 Aug 90 13:04:54 GMT
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In article <1990Aug2.143551.7104@specialix.co.uk> jonb@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes:

>>Also, I do not think I want to use a global and initialize it to
>>argv[0] in body of main(), because I do not use globals!

>Try this sort of thing:

>char *ProgName( pname )

Why is a global function preferable than a global variable?

-- Richard
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