[TUHS] the first busybox

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

Marc Donner via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> When Ken and Dennis created exec() they established the convention that
> argv[0] held the name by which the program was called.  Early uses of the
> argv[0] value to adjust behavior was reported with ex and vi as well as

Late 70s & early 80s

> compress and uncompress in the 1970s.  I bet we have source references for
> that somewhere.

compress and uncompress were in the 80s.  Unix had pack/unpack but I
don't know if they were links to each other or not.

Arnold