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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: 386BSD #!/bin/csh Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:50:48 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep10.045048.6332@kithrup.COM> References: <TRI.92Sep9011202@supergirl.hut.fi> <1992Sep9.171327.20998@gateway.novell.com> Lines: 22 (`comp' is not a valid Distribution. By putting 'Distribution: comp' in the header, you have caused a growing number of sites around the world to just drop your article on the floor. Is that what you wanted?) In article <1992Sep9.171327.20998@gateway.novell.com> terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes: >Instead of: > #!/bin/sh >use: > : > # Alternatively, and I personally think this is "better," modify the exec* source code to, if the system call fails, open up the file in question and to the processing itself, instead of relying on the kernel. Just a thought... -- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around." -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.