Contents of argv[0]

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in article <19112 at mimsy.UUCP>, chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) says:
> Keywords: start-up code, argv specifications
> In article <10743 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>... If you're going to display argv[0] (which is about the only meaningful
>>thing you can do with it), why not just print the whole thing.
    ^
    +--- Counterpoint:

ex, vi, and view are all the same binary. They look at argv[0] to enough
which one to do.


Also, compress and uncompress do the same thing.

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