<div dir="ltr">2016-03-13 18:26 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span>:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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<a href="mailto:mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca">mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca</a> wrote:<br>
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> If a script begins with the characters "#!" and the name of a script<br>
> interpreter, and has the execute bit set, then it can be executed like any<br>
> other program, and the front end can run it the same way the front end<br>
> would run any TeX engine. This is a facility of the operating system,<br>
> often called the "shebang" mechanism, and it is transparent to<br>
> applications. There is no need for the front end to know what language<br>
> the script is written in, nor how to interpret that language.<br>
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</span>As far as I am aware, Mathew, #! is meaningless to the Windows<br>
command-line interpreter; I /believe/ (but have no first-hand knowledge<br>
or experience) that its use is restricted to Unix-like systems.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In MS-DOS, Windows, and OS/2 the script interpreter is recognized by a file extension.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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