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From: kashtan@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice
Subject: Re: vms format files and unix format files
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Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 01:50:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 25 01:50:20 1987
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As the person who did the original Eunice, you can blame me for this
problem.  It is certainly the case that, as of the 4.3bsd-based version
of Eunice, the "#! /bin/csh -f" construct does indeed work and that csh
WILL ignore any startup files.  Craig's explanation for the apparent
problem with shell scripts still in UNIX format is correct.  The problem
is that by the time you are actually activating the image control is in
the CLI of the process that runs the program.  This is an impoverished
enough execution environment that it is extremely difficult to change
the program invocation to shell invocation with the appropriate arguments.
So, in order to keep from having to read the executable file several times
the assumption is made that shell scripts will ALWAYS be in VMS text format.
David