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From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Dealing with multiple scripting languages (was: Elinating the 'rx' from AREXX)
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Date: 22 Aug 89 02:21:22 GMT
References: <1989Aug8.214011.3351@agate.berkeley.edu> <1989Aug14.015608.21854@agate.berkeley.edu> <4117@sugar.hackercorp.com> <44364@bbn.COM>
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In article <44364@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>Actually, the OS could just set up the file pointer to the script file to be
>_just_past_ the first line, so that the comment conventions of the particular
>program would be irrelevant.
>  /Bernie\

How about just using the comment field in the file header?  Most people
don't use these, and if they do, they can just put the magic sequence
at the beginning and the comment afterwords.  (Just keep the same syntax, but
use an already existing field, seldom-use field, saving a very tiny bit of
disk space)



Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
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