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To:	byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)
Subject: Re: re. a minor but annoying bug 
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From:	Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>
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I think this is the kind of `yes, it's ugly, but I've got better things
to do' problem for which the BUGS section of the manual page was
designed.

Alternatively, only print a line number for syntax errors, on the
grounds that no information is better than false information.

rc does better than another scripting language I use regularly (cl in
IRAF -- an astronomical data mangling package), which always reports an
error as occuring on the line AFTER the last line in a file.

Alan.