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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
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 13:30:15 1985
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Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California
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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.
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