[ic] MV_DOLLAR_ZERO question and tips/hints for MV/IC hoster question

[Dan Browning]

> At 10:19 PM 10/14/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hi MV/IC Guru,
> >
> >I saw a MV_DOLLAR_ZERO in line 56 of bin/interchange. What is this 
> >variable for?
> 
> Not what your hoping for, I'm afraid.  $0 is a special Perl 
> variable in 
> which the program "remembers" it's own name; the interchange 
> program just 
> sets it to something more meaningful than 'perl', and it 
> looks like you can 
> define an global variable MV_DOLLAR_ZERO in interchange.cfg 
> if you want to 
> give it a name of your own:
> 
> Variable MV_DOLLAR_ZERO  ic_shop
> 
> ...and now if you do a ps the interchange process should show up as 
> 'ic_shop' instead of 'interchange'. UNTESTED.
> 
> - Ed L.

$0 is the same in shell scripting as well.

-Dan