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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: sh and csh scripts (SCO ODT 1.0 with SCO Unix 3.2.1)
Keywords: sh csh scripts
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.195557.25955@kithrup.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 91 19:55:57 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.225748.23327@sj.ate.slb.com> <8836@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <8836@star.cs.vu.nl> rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
>	The whole world is using '#!', so SCO decided to use ':' instead.

Uhm... sorry.  ':' as the first character of a bourne-shell script is the
*only* portable way to get to run under bourne shell.  And the whole world
is *not* using '#!'.

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