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Path: wupost!psuvax1!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!yanoff
From: yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A Yanoff)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.sources
Subject: Re: FingerInfo v3.0! (NEW!)
Date: 4 Jun 1994 05:18:27 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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From article <2sp1l0$7jo@inca.gate.net>, by bert@inca.gate.net (Unknown):
> Scott A. Yanoff (yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu) wrote:
> : #!/bin/csh -f
> : # FingerInfo By Scott A. Yanoff yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
> : # (C) 1994 Computing Services Division, Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
> : set version = "3.0"
>
> Please explain something. Why is this file written in some sort of
> programming source code rather than in straight, understandable ascii like
> all your other information files? It takes time to edit out all the strange
> characters and make it easily legible. Or this there a reason for this which
> I'm just not aware of?
This is not an ASCII file, but a PROGRAM you run.
This particular type of program that consists of unix shell commands is
called a shell script.
You would want to save it into a file,
Edit out the header,
Give yourself permission to execute the file
and run it by typing it's name.
-Scott
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