On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:12:30PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > ETOOMAGICAL. Shades of zip/unzip here. On some systems zip and unzip
> > are just hard links to the same binary. It figures out what it
> > supposed to do by what name is called. Very magical. Very bad.
> Well, the proposed trick for perl would be bad; what zip does
> isn't. argv[0] is just another arg, afterall.
Hmm. I rather fail to see the difference between the zip vs. perl. On the
other hand, I don't like it when bzip2 does it either -- you can't symlink
bunzip -> bunzip2 and bzip -> bzip2 and have it do the Right Thing. On the
gripping hand, when combined with other mesures, not so bad.
-=- James Mastros
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