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From: smp@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Steve Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Please, be standard compliant!
Message-ID: <5570516@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 13:58:49 GMT
References: <659@modus.sublink.ORG>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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    FYI...


To: luke@modus.sublink.ORG
Subject: Re: Please, be standard compliant!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
In-Reply-To: article <659@modus.sublink.ORG> of Wed, 3 Oct 1990 11:16:05 GMT

    Hello Luke,

| 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.

    Again, thanks for reporting this problem to us.  We have looked at all
    HP-UX commands, and have modified the scripts which do not have #! as
    the first line.  While adding a blank first line to all scripts would
    fix your csh problem, we felt that inserting a #! line is a much more
    robust solution.

    All of these modifications will be shipped in the next major HP-UX 
    release.  

    Thanks again !!

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