Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:16:28 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: (Fileutils) More test suite & Fetish.pm problems
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On 23 Apr 2001, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Changing the test suite so it accommodates this behavior would be a pain.

I'd think that passing the message through Sed to remove the part before 
the colon, or even just testing whether the message includes _a match_ 
for the string you expect (rather than equality to that string) wouldn't 
be hard.  What am I missing?

> It'd sure be nice if Windows would join the modern world...

``Modern'' is in the eye of the beholder ;-)  Windows is younger than 
Unix, and having the full path in argv[0] has many advantages as well.
For example, you can easily know from within the application where does 
that application's executable file lives, so that you can locate 
auxiliary files it needs.  A Unix program needs to look up PATH for that.