Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: using #! and a different shell Message-ID: <1991Feb21.225039.15962@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 21 Feb 91 22:50:39 GMT References: <1991Feb21.172233.8160@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <17438:Feb2121:00:5691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Followup-To: alt.flames Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 18 In article <17438:Feb2121:00:5691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >1. Your subject line is nearly useless. ``Using #!'' is too general, and >``a different shell'' is irrelevant. Much better would be Break it up. Break it up. The question may have been poorly phrased, and should have been in comp.unix.questions. But it is quite understandable nevertheless. Your intemperate answer was uncalled for. Besides you could have given the answer with less than 10% of the effort you put into your reply -- even if it were no more than the man pages reference you hid amidst you verbiage. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com