In message <199901141651.RAA21155@orade.ora.de>, Christoph Badura writes:
>abs@anim.dreamworks.com (David Brownlee) writes:
>
>>	I', trying to use the standard method of having a shell script
>>	that runs perl (direct from 'man perlrun')
>
>>           #!/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*- -p
>
>You could also get rid of the crap from "--" onwards.  It serves no
>useful purpose that I know of.

The '-*- perl -*-' part, at least, is used by Emacs to auto-load
perl-mode for the file.  The '-p' would be passed to perl.