On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Andrew Crossley wrote:

> the man page for magic filter said to put #!/usr/local/bin/magicfilter
> at the top of /etc/printcap.  I thought the # was a bit wierd as it
> denotes a commnet. But being a newbie, I thought it being coupled with
> ! meant something different.  I got rid of the # and the ! and the
> space and it works.  here is my printcap file:

The symbol #! means "execute this with the following command instead of
/sbin/sh".  It is a special case and is not a comment.  It absolutely has
to be the first line, if it appears anywhere else in a script it is just
a comment.  

> #	$NetBSD: printcap,v 1.4 1997/02/15 10:02:22 mikel Exp $
> #	from: @(#)printcap	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
> /usr/local/bin/magicfilter

Change this to:

#!/usr/local/bin/magicfilter
#
#	$NetBSD: printcap,v 1.4 1997/02/15 10:02:22 mikel Exp $
#	from: @(#)printcap	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93

and leave the rest the same.

--N.