perplexing error with g++

Geoff Appleby geoff@topic.com.au
Sat Jul 31 18:34:00 GMT 1999


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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