Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Suggestion for assignment of another protection bit
Message-ID: <3018@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Dec 87 00:06:40 GMT
References: <8712240640.AA24010@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <37368@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <37368@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
> 
> >	As far as execution goes, why not adopt the UNIX standard:
> >
> >#!C:EXECUTE		(as the first line in file)
> 
> But Matt even on UNIX the shell does this, not the O/S. You could use the
> same technique that csh uses, check the file to see if it is a binary
> file (read the first 'hunk header') and look for non ascii characters.

Uh, on Berkeley unix, this *is* handled by the OS.  Yet another kludge,
but it's useful and works pretty well as long as you don't make naive
assumptions about argument passing...

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