Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!uvaarpa!mmdf From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: #! troubles Message-ID: <1970@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> Date: 8 Jan 90 15:35:52 GMT Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.virginia.edu Reply-To: worley@compass.com Lines: 8 The *real* solution for this problem is to have the kernel search your path when it sees a #!. Otherwise, you have to be root to install a new interpreter in the "standard" place, because the #!'s have the interpreter's location hardcoded in. Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com -- The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. --Bruce Cockburn