Could we have a standard "shar" file format?

[David C. Albrecht]

> In article <396 at persci.UUCP> bill at persci.UUCP writes:
> >...
> >from within postings, but it looks for a line that starts with:
> > #!/bin/sh
> >or something like that. It does *NOT* work with shar files that start with
> >a colon in column 1 of the first line! I'm seeing a few of these coming over
> 
> And what are the poor folk with v7 supposed to do? v7 sh recognizes
> a ':' as a comment and '#: program not found' for your solution.
> -- 

Write a friggin sed script for god sake, we are not supposed to be
helpless here this is .sources after all.

David Albrecht