Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!amdcad!jimb From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Could we have a standard "shar" file format? Message-ID: <4048@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 13:30:15 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.4048 Posted: Mon Sep 16 13:30:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 05:50:55 EDT References: <396@persci.UUCP> Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 17 In article <396@persci.UUCP> bill@persci.UUCP writes: >... >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 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 749-5806 UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200 "... Don't sue me, I'm just the piano player!...."