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From: mason@utcsri.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Re: Could we have a standard "shar" file format?
Message-ID: <1404@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 20:09:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsri.1404
Posted: Wed Sep 18 20:09:41 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 20:36:17 EDT
References: <396@persci.UUCP> <4048@amdcad.UUCP> <153@maynard.UUCP>
Reply-To: mason@utcsri.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Organization: University of Toronto/Ryerson Polytechnic Institute
Lines: 21
Summary: ln /bin/true /bin/#

In article <153@maynard.UUCP> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>> >...
>> >from within postings, but it looks for a line that starts with:
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> >...
>> And what are the poor folk with v7 supposed to do? v7 sh recognizes
>> a ':' as a comment and '#: program not found' for your solution.
>>  UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb (Jim Budler)
>
>It doesn't handle all the cases (like metachars after the #) but I wrote
>the smallest possible C program: "main(){}", called it #, and put it
>in /usr/local/bin.

true(1) already does this & is 0 bytes long.  Just link to it, or
	cat /dev/null ># ; chmod +x #
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