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On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 04:36:11AM -0600, SoloCDM wrote:
> I tried several ways to force the command ln to create a link with
> an option attached . . . it wouldn't work.
>
> How are there four (/bin/dnsdomainname /bin/domainname
> /bin/nisdomainname /bin/ypdomainname) different types of hostname
> links with their own separate options?
>
There's a switch statement in the program on argv[0].
It's not including any options in the link.
L.
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