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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ...
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In article <Mutt.19970301123124.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> you write:
>Geeze, why didn't they implement a ``script is on fd 0'' feature.

Good idea, but how about making it fd3 so you can still use it as a filter?

(in Version 6 all scripts were run from fd0 and you couldn't pipe to them.
 it reeked)

You could always brand Java scripts by prepending them with:

	#!/usr/local/bin/javakludge

Then have javakludge do a "dd" to strip off the header and put the rest
in a tempfile, then pass the rest to java.