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From: ssi@usfvax2.EDU (Ssi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bourne Shell Comments Problem
Keywords: Bourne Shell UNIX Problem
Message-ID: <1133@usfvax2.EDU>
Date: 23 Sep 88 02:13:53 GMT
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Organization: University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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>> The fist character on the first line of a shell script is '#'
>> My  Bourne Shell script does not run right.

The problem is just that. Placing a '#' there means you want to
run the script in the csh shell. read is not a csh command.
The rest of what's in your script probably isn't either.
I think you can start your script with :
#!/bin/sh      
and it will run as you would think.
Or you can put a dummy command on line 1.

                      Greg Ripp Ph (813)628-6100