From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mascheck@in-ulm.de (Sven Mascheck) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:07:46 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Command line post-arguments with #! In-Reply-To: <1323913617.13187.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> References: <1323913617.13187.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: <20111215030746.GC9448@lisa.in-ulm.de> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:46:38PM -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: > Can you cite a reference? > > I'm quite familiar with what went on inside the system that was > later called 8th Edition, having been on the inside at Bell Labs > starting in mid-1984. All I know is the two mails from DMR from '80, http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/src/sys/newsys/sys1.c ">From dmr Thu Jan 10 04:25:49 1980 remote from research The system has been changed so that if a file being executed begins with the magic characters #! , [...]" That's why I call it post-7th ed (between 7th and 8th ed) and why I understand the above as original code (but I have no idea about what went on with research Unix then). Or should I interpret DMRs mail differently or with caution?