Re: Teleconference Minutes from 16th December 1999

["H. Peter Anvin" <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> 
> > On your second question you have a good point, though the "#!" stuff is not
> > a part of the spec. Therefore, a perl script (or any other script) is not a
> > portable utility and is therefore out of scope; by this definition they are
> > not utilities. There is no mechanism in the standard to support any type of
> > utility that is not either a binary or shell script.
> 
> Everybody supports #! - why not standardize it?
> 

This was my fault -- I was going to write a standardizable spec and
dropped the ball on it.  Real life caught up with me, unfortunately. 
I'll try to get it done.

        -hpa

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