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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> What does this list think about the merits of this idea?

It won't help much with portability.  getprogname() and setprogname()
are currently even more unportable than __progname, and their names
don't indicated that they should not be used in applications.

Bruce


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