Mark Schonewille wrote:
When you look at the beginning of a MetaCard file, you see a few
shell commands. Actually, a path, 3 comments and a shell command. It
tells the shell to start the MetaCard executable !/bin/sh/mc if you
have that installed.
Specifically:
#!/bin/sh
# MetaCard 2.4 stack
# The following is not ASCII text,
# so now would be a good time to q out of more
Seems the last line is just saying that opening the file in any shell
editor isn't a useful thing to do.
Is there a value to running MC stacks through a shell that I'm missing?
This is different in the new stack file format, which doesn't contain
these commands. Normally, you don't use this because you launch
stacks from the Finder and open them with the Revolution IDE, but you
might launch stacks in the old format from the command line and have
the stack launched with the correct executable automatically.
But the executable specified is sh, which doesn't know what to do with a
stack file (hence the last line).
I may be tired, but I just don't see a major benefit to the old header,
not any significant loss for new binary format to use a different header
than the old binary format -- so long as the new format contains at
least enough human-readable info to identify the file format. I don't
use v2.7 -- does it?
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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