Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 12:52:33 11/17/02
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On November 17, 2002 at 15:30:03, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 17, 2002 at 15:05:48, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>Well, if it starts with "#!/usr/local/bin/perl" or something like that, it _is_ >>an executable. At least under Unix. I don't know how the magic characters '#!' >>in Windows work. > >Hi Daniel, > >That is not true, at least for shell scripts. I forget to chmod u+x all of >the time (well, I used to, now my script templates are generated by a >script). I had #!/bin/sh in my bourne shell scripts, and it wouldn't run >unless I did a chmod u+x to give it execute permissions. That's true for executables generated by a C-compiler too. When you don't have the executable-flag set, you typically get a 'permission denied' error when trying to start the program. Anyway, I don't think that Perl (oder other script-language) would be out of the question anyway. They would be if the term 'binary' would be used, but it's not. Sargon PS. I hope you will participate with your engine! :)
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