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Article #1805Re: FingerInfo v3.0! (NEW!)
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Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 04:05
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net!uunet!news2.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!tequesta.gate.net!inca.gate.net!bert From: bert@gate.net (Unknown) Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.sources Subject: Re: FingerInfo v3.0! (NEW!) Followup-To: alt.internet.services,alt.sources Date: 11 Jun 1994 04:05:19 GMT Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2tbd5v$lco@tequesta.gate.net> References: <2sp1l0$7jo@inca.gate.net> <2sp2r3INNa5d@uwm.edu> <2t0hqj$hu2@inca.gate.net> <2t18jf$c0d@cony.gsf.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: inca.gate.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]