Why the executable binary of the aria2 download manager is named aria2c?

Arno Hautala arno at alum.wpi.edu
Fri Jan 30 19:07:29 PST 2015


From: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/aria2
>
> The executable name for the aria2 package is aria2c. This legacy naming convention has been retained for backwards compatibility.

I don't know what legacy naming convention they're referring to, but…
that's why?

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Behrang Saeedzadeh <behrangsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nothing important, but I have always wondered why the binary is named aria2c
> rather than aria2? Was it clashing with another package that its executable
> file was called aria2?
>
> Best regards,
> Behrang
> http://www.behrang.org
>
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