Distinguishing CLI from GUI

[Richard Gaskin]

As Todd Geist quoted here earlier, in the Dictionary entry for "$" it says:

     If you start up the application from the command line (on OS X,
     Unix or Windows systems), the command name is stored in the
     global variable $0 and any arguments passed on the command line
     are stored in numbered variables starting with the $ character.
     For example, if you start the application by typing the following
     shell command:

       myrevapp -h name

     then the global variable $0 contains "myrevapp" (the name of the
     application), $1 contains "-h", and $2 contains "name".

In my tests here, it seems this is only partially correct:  $0 contains 
the app name from the command line ("myrevapp" in their example), but $1 
contains the "name" portion after the "-h" option flag, and the flag 
itself does not appear in any $ variable.

I have an app in which I'd like to have two different behaviors, 
depending on whether it's being run from the command-line or as a GUI.

This would be easy if the engine worked as described in the Dictionary 
so I could easily detect if the user launched it with "-ui", but it 
seems the option flags are not being passed to the application, though 
everything that doesn't begin with "-" is.

So my question is two-fold:

1. I've tested this on Windows and Linux and get identical behavior, in 
which the "-" flags aren't present in the "$" vars.  Can anyone here 
confirm this on Linux, Win, or OS X?

2. If this is indeed a documentation bug and what I see in my tests is 
what happens for everyone, how can I determine whether the app was 
launched with "-ui" or not?

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