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From: jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: sh and csh scripts (SCO ODT 1.0 with SCO Unix 3.2.1)
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.195655.27594@turnkey.tcc.com>
Date: 26 Jan 91 19:56:55 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.225748.23327@sj.ate.slb.com> <8836@star.cs.vu.nl> <1991Jan26.033315.10820@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA
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In article <1991Jan26.033315.10820@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>As quoted from <8836@star.cs.vu.nl> by rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol):
>| 	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.
 
Well, it may be a BSDism but it is a nice feature to have, and as for not
being found in "standard SVR3", Interactive implemented it in either 2.0.2
or 2.2 (not sure which it was), which probably means Esix and Dell would
have it as well. So, what we have here isn't a case of SCO corruption, just
a failure to provide a useful and desireable feature :-}.

Disclaimer: I don't speak for my employer.

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Jack F. Vogel			jackv@locus.com
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