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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: csh question
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Date: 13 Nov 89 09:59:00 GMT
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In article <1989Nov13.014412.24735@Neon.Stanford.EDU> kamens@Neon.Stanford.EDU
(Samuel N Kamens) writes:
>I am trying to write a csh shell that looks like this (with names changed to
>protect the innocent)
>
>...
>
>When I run it, I get an error (error: end of file unexpected).

  You need "#!/bin/csh -f" at the top.  Since you don't have that, it
is being interpreted as a bourne shell script, hence the error you
received.

>Sam Kamens		     |  "How do you know she is a witch?"
>kamens@neon.stanford.edu     |  "She looks like one!!"

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