From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!trt Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.news.b Title: Re: watmath.3082: Identify program error messages, please! Article-I.D.: duke.2349 Posted: Sun Jul 25 19:16:29 1982 Received: Wed Jul 28 05:59:52 1982 It would be helpful if the C runtime startoff routine provided a global variable which identified the program's name. For example, extern char *cmdname; cmdname would point to the last component of argv[0], so a program as "/usr/bin/news" would have cmdname "news".