Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site edison.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!dca From: dca@edison.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Re: Could we have a standard "shar" file format? Message-ID: <579@edison.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 13:42:59 EST Article-I.D.: edison.579 Posted: Fri Nov 8 13:42:59 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 07:42:18 EST References: <396@persci.UUCP> <4048@amdcad.UUCP> Organization: General Electric Company, Charlottesville, VA Lines: 15 > 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. > -- Write a friggin sed script for god sake, we are not supposed to be helpless here this is .sources after all. David Albrecht