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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Re: Could we have a standard "shar" file format?
Message-ID: <153@maynard.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 06:36:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 06:36:54 1985
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> >...
> >from within postings, but it looks for a line that starts with:
> > #!/bin/sh
> >or something like that. It does *NOT* work with shar files that start with
> >a colon in column 1 of the first line! I'm seeing a few of these coming over
> 
> 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.
> -- 
>  Jim Budler
>  UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb

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.
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