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From: kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: FTP
Message-ID: <43200076@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 89 12:35:00 GMT
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/* Written  8:58 am  Apr 20, 1989 by rsalz@bbn.com in uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.wizards */
> You can save a few lines if you replace #!/bin/sh with "#! /usr/ucb/ftp -n"

This doesn't work.  When you use "#! /path" at the beginning of a script, the
BSD Unix passes the name of the script to the program "/path" as a command
line argument, not connected to standard input.  Ftp doesn't support this.

Patrick Wolfe  (pat@kai.com,  kailand!pat)
System Manager, Kuck & Associates, Inc.