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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: sh and csh scripts (SCO ODT 1.0 with SCO Unix 3.2.1)
Summary: Not SCO's fault, news at 11.
Keywords: sh csh scripts
Message-ID: <7329FO1@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 21:54:00 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.225748.23327@sj.ate.slb.com> <8836@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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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.

It's not really SCO's fault (what!?). This is standard System V behaviour.
The #! bit was a Berkeleyism that AT&T never picked up.
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