Re: Script interpreter arguments

allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 08:00:59 -0400 (EDT)

On 4 Jul, Khimenko Victor wrote:
+-----
| On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Guest section DW wrote:
| > From: "Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru>
| >
| > It's possible to specify optional argument to interpreter in script:
| > but not possible to specify two arguments
| >
| > In other words: a space does not separate arguments here.
| >
| I know this. I even know what and where I can change to fix this (forgot
| to mention this in original message, sorry). I wonder why it whas
| developed this way...
+--->8

Because 4.2BSD did it that way, and so has every other implementation
to date (of which I'm aware). Many of them also inherited a 32-byte
limit from 4.2BSD.

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