milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) (03/22/91)
In article <1510019@hparc0.HP.COM> graham@hparc0.HP.COM (Graham Eddy) writes: >> Why does HP leave out the #! at the top of there scripts? >because hp-ux is System V, not BSD >hp-ux includes a large number of BSDisms (where they don't interfere >with sys5; support for "#!" is an example) but is NOT the focus. >a number of people have mistaken it for a BSD implementation I find this answer extremely disturbing. hp-ux is neither system V nor BSD. While it was originally based on SVR2, it is its own beast. It is in little danger of being mistaken for either. The key point here is that something is broken! Since you provide support for #!, and since a number of provided scripts contain a simple # in the first line, THEY DO NOT WORK when invoked from csh. This issue has, in fact, been discussed in this forum previously, and a commitment was made to fix the problem. An attitude like yours is very disturbing to me, a customer. I don't really care what history led to an existing problem. What I really care about is that you, the vendor, recognize and fix the problem, giving me proper functionality. Luckily, someone else has, in this case. -jem Here is the response to a post about this problem last October. >From: smp@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Steve Platt) >Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp >Subject: Re: Please, be standard compliant! >Date: 16 Oct 90 13:58:49 GMT >Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co. | To: luke@modus.sublink.ORG | Subject: Re: Please, be standard compliant! | Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp | In-Reply-To: article <659@modus.sublink.ORG> of Wed, 3 Oct 1990 11:16:05 GMT Hello Luke, | Please stop putting lines like: | # @(#) $Revision: 51.3 $ | as the *first* line of standard bourne shell scripts of your HP-UX | distribution (as /usr/bin/uuto!). People using /bin/csh *cannot use* | such scripts (which can be *system* commands) because of the | *STANDARD CONFORMANCE* of HP-UX csh. > Again, thanks for reporting this problem to us. We have looked at all > HP-UX commands, and have modified the scripts which do not have #! as > the first line. While adding a blank first line to all scripts would > fix your csh problem, we felt that inserting a #! line is a much more > robust solution. > All of these modifications will be shipped in the next major HP-UX > release. > Thanks again !! > Steve Platt / HP-UX Commands / smp@hpfclj.fc.hp.com -- John Milburn milburn@me10.lbl.gov (415) 486-6969 "Koko, will there be gnomes and dwarves for Lebee to wrestle with?" "Yes Mishu, and also trolls and mutants we may spar with!" -SNL