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Re: Teleconference Minutes from 16th December 1999

To: David Korn <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Teleconference Minutes from 16th December 1999
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:55:24 -0800
Cc: yyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: Transmeta Corporation
References: <199912180250.VAA70181@raptor.research.att.com>
David Korn wrote:
> 
> > Everybody supports #! - why not standardize it?
> >
> > Keld
> >
> >
> 
> I don't support #! because it puts absolute pathnames
> inside scripts.
> 

It's ugly, I agree, but so are many other things -- like special-casing
leading // in pathnames.  It is better than nothing, and everyone do use
it.

        -hpa

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