bagpiper@csvax.caltech.EDU (08/07/87)
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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