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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
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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.
> -- 

Write a friggin sed script for god sake, we are not supposed to be
helpless here this is .sources after all.

David Albrecht