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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: sh and csh scripts (SCO ODT 1.0 with SCO Unix 3.2.1)
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.033315.10820@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 26 Jan 91 03:33:15 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.225748.23327@sj.ate.slb.com> <8836@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <8836@star.cs.vu.nl> by rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol):
+---------------
| konath@sj.ate.slb.com (Kannan Konath) writes:
| >I have a few shell scripts that are either csh (C shell) or sh (Bourne
| >shell) scripts.  However the facility of specifying the type of script,
| >that is available in the Berkeley/SunOS environement (ie. #!/bin/csh or
| >#!/bin/sh), does not seem to work in SCO ODT (SCO Unix).
| 	The whole world is using '#!', so SCO decided to use ':' instead.
+---------------

Nope --- SCO actually goes blameless for a change.  #! is a Berzerkeleyism,
not to be found in standard SVR3, or even in SCO's corruption of same.

++Brandon
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