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Aucbvax.5199 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sun Nov 15 23:01:47 1981

>From mhtsa!chico!learned!nrh@Berkeley Sun Nov 15 22:16:13 1981 What's all this fuss about putting the un-globbed command into argv[-1] or some such?

I believe somebody has already suggested that the un-globbed command might be passed as an element of the shell's environment.

Anything wrong with that approach? I think it's very ugly to write code that would use this: after all, the user would never be able to tell just what he was telling the program (because if he used glob characters, they wouldn't necessarily expand), and this is bound to cause trouble. But if you really must try to make unix look like TENEX or some such, at least don't muck with argc and argv.

- Nat Howard

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