Greg A. Woods sez:
/*
 * As no doubt most everyone on this list knows, most Unix shells will try
 * to run a "program" as a script if the kernel refuses to exec() it as a
 * binary.

starwolf% file /tmp/cat
/tmp/cat: PA-RISC1.0 shared executable dynamically linked
starwolf% ls -l /tmp/cat
-r-xr-xr-x  1 greywolf  wheel  16384 Feb 18 17:11 /tmp/cat
starwolf% /tmp/cat
/tmp/cat: Exec format error.  Wrong Architecture.
starwolf% echo $shell
/bin/csh
starwolf%

So what's the problem?  I'm using a NetBSD shell.  :-)

[sounds like sh/bash/ksh need csh's exec smarts.  don't shoot me.]

 */





				--*greywolf;
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