Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why does this shell program run under csh???? Message-ID: <7803@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 16:05:40 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-adm.7803 Posted: Wed Jun 10 16:05:40 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 04:31:52 EDT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 19 ? : is NOT a comment in the Bourne shell -- it's a command. ? # is the comment character (at least it has been for several ? years). : is not a suitable replacement for # for reasons ? that should be obvious. True enuf. It does restrict your character set. I take your silence on the rest of my posting to mean that my account was reasonably factual. My quibble with TPC is that after so much care by Bill Joy to accommodate the original shell, they didn't return the consideration. They ignored the well established convention that csh uses by using the same comment character. They seem to think no one else exists but them. (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 PARDON me, am I speaking ENGLISH?