From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!hanss
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: blood curdling exec
Article-I.D.: microsof.2559
Posted: Fri Oct 29 15:04:25 1982
Received: Sun Oct 31 01:08:55 1982

With appologies to dmr.

Yes, I said it wrong again.  the 4.1  '#! /bin/csh'
syntax is in exec, not the shell!  and they did document it,
but in the page for exec(2), not the shell page.

As the wise philosopher alluded to above put it:
If theres a bug in the shell, fix the shell, dont hack the system to
work around it.

I admit that putting this function into the system makes it more efficient
and allows you to implement any script muncher you may want as a filter,
but it fixes the comment syntax of all such things.  how about
#! /bin/cc for example?   No wonder the army likes BSD.  They liked
cobol and OS 360 too.

				Afraid to admit my alma mater
				-Hans
				UC Berkeley AB CS '78
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