Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 94 14:20:01 -0400
From:	dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To:	burger AT Mailer DOT Uni-Marburg DOT DE
Cc:	sasbnb AT unx DOT sas DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: pbmplus and emm386 noems

> Since there are quite a few unix utilities changing their behavior
> based on their name (e.g. gzip) I wonder if it were a good idea to
> extend go32 with an additional switch that allows changing the argv[0]
> of the invoked binary image. Comments...?

Gee, I did that in 1.11 and you didn't notice?  Use stubedit to change
the name of the binary-actually-executed, so that to emulate symbolic
links, you would:

(1) have an existing realprog.exe

(2) copy stub.exe to symprog.exe

(3) use stubedit to tell symprog.exe to really run realprog.exe

(4) run symprog.exe

Go32 will pass argv[0] as the name of the symlink, but will load the
code from the actual binary, which is what a symbolic link does in
Unix.

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