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Subject: argv[0]
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 23:14:38 EDT
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              This gets a little bit away from the mainstream of the
         conversation, but I have used argv[0] to determine what the
         program does.
              BACKGROUND & EXPLAINATION: At the college I attend we
         have a PRIME 9955 mod I running PrimOS (yuch!!) anbd PRIMIX
         (not much better..maybe worse!).  sh does not have any alias
         ability so I wrote a C prog with that name that did the
         argument line translations (primix to primos filename
         mappings are ugly..you can have a filename in one that the
         other will not recognize) and then exec the proper prog.
         Will I quickly realized that if it exec'd argv[0] that I
         could use the same code for a lot of things.

                                Thought that this might be interesting...

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