.\" -*-nroff-*-
.TH quis 3 "22 May 1999" "Straylight/Edgeware" "mLib utilities library"
.SH NAME
quis \- remember the program's name for use in messages
.\" @quis
.\" @ego
.\" @QUIS
.\" @pquis
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B "#include <mLib/quis.h>"

.BI "void ego(const char *" p );
.B "const char *quis(void);"
.B "const char *QUIS;"
.BI "int pquis(FILE *" fp ", const char *" p );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B ego
function should be called early in your program's initialization
sequence, with the value of
.B argv[0]
as its argument.  It will strip away leading path components, and a
leading `\-' character (in case the program was called as a login
shell), and keep the resulting short name for later.
.PP
The
.B quis
function returns the stored program name.  There is also a macro
.B QUIS
which expands to the name of a global variable whose value is the string
returned by
.BR quis() .
.PP
Don't ask why it's done this way.  There are raisins, but they're mostly
hysterical.
.PP
The function
.B pquis
is passed a file pointer
.I fp
and a string
.IR p :
it writes the string to the file, replacing every lone occurrence of the
character
.RB ` $ '
by the program name.  Pairs
.RB (` $$ ')
are written as single dollar signs.  The return value is zero if
everything went OK, or the constant
.B EOF
if there was an error.
.PP
The program name is used in the messages produced by the
.BR die (3)
and
.BR moan (3)
functions.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR report (3),
.BR mLib (3).
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Wooding, <mdw@nsict.org>