RE: Where is Dave Sill??

[Greg Owen]

> I believe some Unixes use the string "#! /" as a magic string for
> interpreted executeables and ignore "#!/". Your mileage may vary.

        I suspect you're right but can't remember which *ix is picky that
way.  Anyone, anyone?

        For all *ixes I've used, however, " #!" will not work because those
magic characters must be the first two bytes in the file.  That's the part
that's important to get right.

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