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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ... 
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On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> > Why bother??? It's not so hard to type 'java Class'......
> > I like my users to be aware that they are running through an interpreter,
> > and that there are command line options to the interpreter.
> >
> 
> Well some of my users like being able to run java "binaries" without
> invoking the interpreter on the command line, later on if (when?) say DOS
> and Win16/32 binaries are supported, I think it would look better if you
> could just type "progname" and it ran it.
>

vi "progname"

#!/bin/sh
java Class