Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:57:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in crt1.c (alpha 980712)
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:

> For example,
> "sendmail" acts differently if it is called as "newaliases", but
> "newaliases" is longer than 8 characters.  Yes, I know symlinks would
> be used in that case, but there may be cases where they aren't, or
> when *all* variants are longer 8 characters.

Thanks for the explanation.
 
IIRC, the symlink field is 8 characters itself, so if you need more than 
that, argv0 is the way to go.  You can even have a symlink that has 
alternate argv0, I think.