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From: frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier)
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Subject: Re: using #! for perl scripts
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Date: 16 May 91 22:11:29 GMT
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rusty@groan.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes:

>The man page for execve says that the pathname given after the #! can
>be at most 32 characters.  But the full pathname of perl on my machine
>is more than 32 characters.  Does anybody have recommendations on a
>good consistent way to deal with this?

I don't know if it's good, but you can create a local symbolic
link to perl.
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