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From: smp@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Steve Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Please, be standard compliant!
Message-ID: <5570514@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 90 17:41:44 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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| Please stop putting lines like:
| # @(#) $Revision: 51.3 $
|
| as the *first* line of standard bourne shell scripts of your HP-UX
| distribution (as /usr/bin/uuto!). People using /bin/csh *cannot use*
| such scripts (which can be *system* commands) because of the
| *STANDARD CONFORMANCE* of HP-UX csh: if the *first* character of a
| script is a # and it is *not* followed by a ! the csh spawns a "csh -c"
| in order to execute it. So it is and so it must be. So, don't oblige
| *all* your csh-using-customers to edit HP-UX system scripts so they
| can have their machines working.
| 
| Please fix it!

    Thanks for this input - it certainly seems to be a problem.  We'll
    try to fix all affected scripts by the next major release.

    Steve Platt / HP-UX Commands / smp@hpfclj.fc.hp.com

    P.S.  This note is not an official HP statement - it is only my
	  personal opinion.