From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f954bcd9ffa6c26c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-18 07:01:50 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Ted Dennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat 3.13p: Command_Name RM A.15 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:54:58 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <94703u$6k8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.48.27.130 X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Jan 18 14:54:58 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010109 X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x55.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4157 Date: 2001-01-18T14:54:58+00:00 List-Id: In article , Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote: > not used an Ada95 compiler on VMS, but I would expect something called > Command_Name to return the command I had typed, rather than the > filename of the executable image that implemented that command. Some That's right. Remember that the main use of this feature (in C programs at least) is to redisplay the command's name in a "usage" statement, with the proper paramers with which the command is supposed to be invoked. It would be a little shocking for a user to type in somecommand --help and be greeted with: q:/dira/dirb/dirc/dird/XYZ.exe arg1... -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/