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In article <89222.093949UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>On IBM's CMS (the home of the original REXX) there is a kludgy but simple
>convention for distinguishing REXX files from the older EXEC files which
>could be used to distinguish AREXX from AmigaDOS scripts, too.  On CMS,
>if the script starts with a comment on line one, then it is REXX.  This
>is perhaps similar to the UNIX convention of putting (something like)
>#!/bin/sh at the beginning of a script to tell the C shell to use the
>Bourne shell, instead.

If I remember correctly, /bin/sh is the default shell for executing scripts
unless another shell is specified on the first line.

I'd like something of this ilk for AmigaDOS.  That way, we can support other
script interpreters that launch automatically.  Like PERL for instance!

Richard Addison
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