Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!mike@rice From: mike%rice@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: #! in 4 bsd Message-ID: <17368@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 16:07:43 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17368 Posted: Fri Mar 9 16:07:43 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 00:43:31 EST Lines: 9 From: Mike.CaplingerThe #! feature was added to the Berkeley Unix system in 4.1; it was not present in 4.0. The major motivation, I believe, was to allow Pascal interpreter files to be execed directly without using the disgusting hack of putting an executable interpreter front end on them. In fact, this is a nice general solution to the problem of running files which are interpreted by some other program. Cshell scripts are just a special case of that.