Re: new to list, install questions

[Shawn P. Stanley]

> Lines in inetd.conf have a variable number of parameters, beyond the
> path to the program at parameter #6 and the name of the program at
> parameter #7 (don't ask me why you have to specify the path and the
> name separately -- botch, botch).

The name parameter is actually sent as parameter zero to the application
specified in the path parameter.  There are a number of applications that
perform differently depending on what they receive as parameter zero.  As an
example, gzip, gunzip, and zcat are all the same program, but when it's
invoked with the name zcat, it acts very differently from when it's invoked
with the name gzip.