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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: #!/usr/bin/nawk -f
Message-ID: <1991May31.000811.11723@kithrup.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 00:08:11 GMT
References: <1991May27.154914.21663@newshost.anu.edu.au> <8988@gollum.twg.com> <1991May30.230458.6240@ico.isc.com>
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In article <1991May30.230458.6240@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>(David made a comment about all the useful stuff being BSDisms...but a lot
>of it gets picked up by SysV vendors as "value added" because it's
>obviously useful.)

Doesn't mean it's a good thing to pick up.  SCO, for example, "picked up"
having a writable address 0, "because it's obviously so useful."  Using #!
has at least one *major* problem that causes me to not really like it:  you
have to hardwire in the path of the interpreter.  Ugly.

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