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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bourne Shell Comments Problem
Keywords: Bourne Shell UNIX Problem
Message-ID: <8567@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 23 Sep 88 06:06:37 GMT
References: <292@dsacng1.UUCP> <375@stiatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <375@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>In article <292@dsacng1.UUCP>, nab1382@dsacng1.UUCP (Dick Hauser) writes:
>A comment indicator in column1, line 1, indicates the script is
>a csh script instead of sh.

Any Bourne shell that acts this way is BROKEN.
Nearly all Bourne shell scripts I have encountered in the past
several years start with #.