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From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
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Subject: #! loader convention
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Date: 15 Apr 91 23:25:41 GMT
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I believe that the convention of interpreting #! comments in
"scripts" is built in the loader for BSD. Does anyone know
if any such mechanism exists at the same level in System V ?
I'm looking for more than just some of those brain-damaged
shell conventions like (":" means use /bin/sh), something that
one can guarantee that a call to exec[vlpe] will succeed
even if the file needs an interpeter.

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Paul Barton-Davis			<pauld@cs.washington.edu>
UW Computer Science Lab		``to shatter tradition makes us feel free''