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From: rm55+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rudolph T. Maceyko)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: PERL mucks with "magic number?"
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Date: 9 May 90 19:57:45 GMT
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Here's one for you.  Say I have a PERL script which begins with
#!/short/path/to/perl ;-> ...  Does PERL get invoked TWICE in order to
execute the script?  Once from the kernel, and once again by PERL?
And, if so, how does PERL know when to stop, since it'll see the #!
again?

Rudy

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