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Re: TODO list (REPOST)


> Fernando> Yes, that is the idea.  A modification in Mo's patch that
> Fernando> will default to -w if the name contains "insight" and to -nw
> Fernando> otherwise would do that.
> 
> The GNU Coding Standards ask that the program's behavior not depend on
> the name of the program:
> 
>        Please don't make the behavior of a utility depend on the name used
>     to invoke it.  It is useful sometimes to make a link to a utility with
>     a different name, and that should not change what it does.

Eh?  Aren't there are other gnu utilities that do different
things depending on the name used to invoke them? gzip, gunzip,
zcat, for example?

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Grant Edwards
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