Could we have a standard "shar" file format?

Jim Budler jimb at amdcad.UUCP
Tue Sep 17 03:30:15 AEST 1985


In article <396 at persci.UUCP> bill at 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.
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