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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 11:18:03 +1000
From: Geoff Appleby <geoff@topic.com.au>
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Subject: Re: perplexing error with g++
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abl893s@mail.smsu.edu wrote:

> With release 20.1 "#!" on first line of C++ file I get error "Invalid
> name" for line 1, upon trying to compile with g++.

A #! line is a some sort of scipt isn't it?  A C++ program that has a
line starting with a # is a
preprocessor directive - and the preprocessor doesn't exaclt run shell
scripts for you.
Why have it in there? what's the line?


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