Could we have a standard "shar" file format?

[Dave Mason]

In article <153 at maynard.UUCP> campbell at maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>> >...
>> >from within postings, but it looks for a line that starts with:
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> >...
>> 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.
>>  UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb (Jim Budler)
>
>It doesn't handle all the cases (like metachars after the #) but I wrote
>the smallest possible C program: "main(){}", called it #, and put it
>in /usr/local/bin.

true(1) already does this & is 0 bytes long.  Just link to it, or
	cat /dev/null ># ; chmod +x #
-- 
Usenet:	{dalcs dciem garfield musocs qucis sask titan trigraph ubc-vision
 	 utzoo watmath allegra cornell decvax decwrl ihnp4 uw-beaver}
	!utcsri!mason		Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRI
CSNET:	mason at Toronto
ARPA:	mason%Toronto at CSNet-Relay