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Subject: Re: broken compctl zsh-2.6-beta13 -->  3.0pre2
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>> On Wed, 17 Jul 96 14:52:31 -0400,
>> Timothy J Luoma(TJL) wrote:

TJL> Also, starting in '3.0pre2' $ZSH_NAME reports "zsh" which is
TJL> truly unhelpful.

Why do you think it unhelpful? It gives the name by which zsh was
invoked (which affects its emulation):

  $ ln -s zsh-3.0-pre3 ksh
  $ ./ksh
  % echo $ZSH_NAME
  ksh
  %
  $ ln -s zsh-3.0-pre3 sh
  $ ./sh
  % echo $ZSH_NAME
  sh
  %
  $ ./zsh -f
  % echo $ZSH_NAME
  zsh
  %
  $
  
-- 
  -mb-