[linux-dvb] Re: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

[Nigel Pearson <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>]

On Mar 4, 2004, at 1:33 AM, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> But I realized that the various ?zap options now get
> increasingly inconsistent. The only sensible way out
> is to merge the three ?zap progams into one, and possibly
> move common stuff into a library.
>
> I know this breaks backwards compatibility for scripts
> which use ?zap, but I think we should do it before
> doing a new dvb-apps release.
	We can easily have one program (dvbzap?) which is linked
as szap, tzap, czap, or any other name (like many GNU apps).
When they startup, they check argv[0] to determine their
default behaviour (sat, terrestial, cable, generic).

	That way, no scripts break.

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