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Re: FingerInfo v3.0! (NEW!)

#1805
From: Unknown
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 04:05
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Bernhard Muenzer (mue@cony.gsf.de) wrote:

: | Could it be that you must have a specific type of shell to run this? I used
: | the korn shell (ksh), is that the problem? If so, is there a solution?

: The first line of the script reads

: #!/bin/csh -f

: which means it should be executed using the C-shell.
: ksh doesn't evaluate #! on the first line, so you will have to do
: so manually:

:   csh -f fingerinfo

: should do the job.

: Hint: save the program in, say, fingerinfo.csh in your ~/bin directory
: and put the one-liner
:   csh -f ~/bin/fingerinfo.csh
: as "fingerinfo" (with execute permission set) in your ~/bin too.
: (Provided ~/bin is included in your PATH= statement in your .profile)

It worked perfectly! Thanks for the advice. The only thing I had to do was
to correct the pathname for finger since on my Internet provider, finger is
not on /usr/local/bin.
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