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Yes!
I copied it to my home dir.
cp /usr/bin mc /home/rcgreen/mcedit

then

./mcedit
(runs editor!)

like you said, the program checks first arg (its own name,by which it was

I looked for an alias or an environment variable
to explain it but no such luck.
I guess the people who created these links
know something that I don't.
Oh, well...
:cool:

I get:

#ls -l mcedit
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Oct 3 13:00 mcedit -> mc


#mc
(runs main prog)

OK, I give up. I can't figure this out.
RED HAT 6
In /usr/sbin there is a program, mc (midnight commander)
If you run mc, you get the mc program running,
a file manager type prog with lots of...