Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 8 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 #.