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Bruce Perens: Statement on Busybox LawsuitsBruce Perens: Statement on Busybox LawsuitsPosted Dec 23, 2009 2:21 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755)In reply to: Bruce Perens: Statement on Busybox Lawsuits by landley Parent article: Bruce Perens: Statement on Busybox Lawsuits
Bruce is right: "decide which function to perform by looking at argv[0]" predates gzip.
I have here in my hand Kernighan and Pike, _The_UNIX_Programming_Environment_, which suggests the idea on page 85, as "a novel use".
Publication date?
1984.
Anyone wanna go back any further than that?
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Bruce Perens: Statement on Busybox Lawsuits Posted Dec 23, 2009 22:51 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]
My point was merely that gzip's use of the technique predated busybox.
Otherwise: dead thread, by the editor's request.
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