Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Script bits Message-ID: <1991Feb20.013503.15087@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 20 Feb 91 01:35:03 GMT References: <1991Feb13.053854.12419@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Feb13.210019.3896@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Feb19.015136.696@NCoast.ORG> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 16 In article <1991Feb19.015136.696@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes: > In article <1991Feb13.210019.3896@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >That's a Small Matter of Programming in "load_script()". Personally, I like > >the idea of using the Filenote for this (that'd satisfy your "ls" needs)... > >You could also have the #! string in the filenote (check that first, for > >speed). > I can tell you that I would refuse to use any program that put/changed > anything in the filenotes field, and I don't think I am alone. That's why I said "also". You could continue to use the filenotes if you left the #! out. If there was no #! (or whatever the magic string was) in the note then it'd look in the file. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .