>Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:11:58 -0500
>From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>

>I know/knew about chsh/chfn/chpass.  I don't like them, but
>chsh/chfn/etc all accept options that allow you to override the
>behavior implied by argv[0] - or at least the ones I've looked at do,
...
>at/atq/atrm I didn't know about.  If they don't have options to
>override the operation implied by argv[0], then no, I don't like them
>either in this respect.

Another example is gzip, but it also allows the user to override the
behavior implied by argv[0].  "gunzip" is equivalent to "gzip -d", and
"gzcat" is equivalent to "gzip -c" (or "gzip -d -c", I'm not sure).

I agree with der Mouse that adding argv[0]-sensitive behavior to
standard utilities is a bad idea.  Precedent is not an excuse.
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