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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
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: <53661@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 29 Jan 91 15:24:17 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.225748.23327@sj.ate.slb.com> <8836@star.cs.vu.nl> <7329FO1@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <7329FO1@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com
	(Peter da Silva) wrote:

] 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.

AT&T has picked it up and it's standard SysV behavior - SysVr4.  :-)
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