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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SVR3.0 vs BSD4.3
Message-ID: <7578@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 17:27:34 GMT
References: <12414@brl-adm.ARPA> <4361@megaron.arizona.edu> <7499@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7514@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2050@munnari.oz>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <2050@munnari.oz> by kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz):
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| > >   support for multiple command interpreters with #! as first line of script
| > 
| > This is totally unnecessary;
| 
| This is so much drivel its not even worth commenting on.
+---------------

As written, yes; but it's close.  A cheap csh + "alias shell" + a tiny
program together allow me to use #! syntax almost always.  If everyone
used "exec?p()" and "exec?p()" used $SHELL, it would work ALL the time.
Since the majority of good programs use $SHELL, I have few problems.

Note that we don't even run System V, much less BSD.
-- 
	      Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc
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