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From: luke@modus.sublink.ORG (Luciano Mannucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Please, be standard compliant!
Message-ID: <667@modus.sublink.ORG>
Date: 18 Oct 90 19:10:23 GMT
References: <659@modus.sublink.ORG> <5570516@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: Modus srl- Milano, Italy
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In article <5570516@hpfcdc.HP.COM>, smp@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Steve Platt) writes:
| 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.

Ok. Fine.
I've added a line beginning by a : which is the bourne shell *null* statement
but I admit that a #! /bin/sh is *much more* robust. (The : is potentially
dangerous.
: is a comment
works ok but
: is a comment <useless> BTW
creates an empty BTW file).

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

anxiously waiting :-)

luke.
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