This one time, at band camp, Elimar Riesebieter said: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 the mental interface of > Robert Ian Smit told: > > > I know that some programs react differently depending on how they > > are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program > > know that it was started by using a symlink? > > > > For instance when I create a vi symlink to vim, will vim start up > > normally or will it mimick vi? > Just type vim to start vim. I can't verify your problem? > > HTH Ordinarily, no. Generally it's not symlinks that affect the behavior of a program. If it's something managed by Debian's alternatives system, it's because the symlink for /usr/bin/vi is pointing to /etc/alternatives/vi, which is in turn pointing to a more vi-like program than vim. The other time you might see behavior like this would be if /usr/bin/vi is a wrapper script that invoked vim with vi-like options, but this isn't the case. HTH, Steve -- All generalisations are dangerous, including this one.
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