Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:41:15 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com>
cc: Fred Smith <fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: stubify/stubedit
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On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Art S. Kagel wrote:

> No but what you can do is to create the symbolic link and in your program 
> change the default options that you assume according the the value of 
> argv[0].  This is how grep/fgrep/egrep work.  I have written many 
> programs of this type. 

He was talking about making a such a ``symlink'' to a standard program 
(e.g., `ls'), where changing the source isn't an option.