From: utzoo!watmath!idallen Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.news.b Title: Re: watmath.3082: Identify program error messages, please! Article-I.D.: watmath.3116 Posted: Wed Jul 28 21:44:59 1982 Received: Wed Jul 28 23:18:55 1982 References: duke.2349 I like the idea of the C runtime setting up cmdname. I invariably do this myself (using argv[0]) whenever I write a user routine. However, don't just provide a pointer to argv[0] in cmdname! Please copy the string so that programs that step on argv[0] don't wipe out their name. -IAN! U of Waterloo (decvax!watmath!idallen)