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- Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
-
- In article <17504@cs.utexas.edu> karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
- >On some older SysV-based systems I've used, scripts that start with the '#'
- >character are interpreted as csh scripts no matter what follows the '#'.
-
- That was a bug in porting a pre-#! era csh feature. On UNIX System V,
- more often than not Bourne shell scripts begin with '#'. Therefore it
- was unwise to leave that vestigial feature in csh when porting it to
- such an environment.
-
- The basic answer is that there is no truly portable solution, other
- than writing Bourne shell scripts starting with non-# that invoke
- whatever other command is actually wanted, using some sort of path
- search to find it.
-
- Of course Plan 9's user-mounted appendable directories makes this easier..
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 95
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