Marius Ghita
And thats expected given than the shebang is *nix specific.
Perhaps not unexpected, but not necessary either. I may be wrong, but it seems reasonable to assume there's a common code base for the Haskell Platform for Linux and Windows versions. Presumably there's code for the parser to the skip shebang line on Linux - there's no reason why it couldn't do the same on Windows. As it is, it's just an unhelpful impediment to having cross-platform scripts (unless there's a good reason for it - I couldn't think of one). Coincidentally, I am working on functionality which brings shebang line processing to Windows, primarily for Python scripts but it also works with other scripting languages (like Perl). That's not why I posted this, though - I was just given a set of scripts and want to use them on Windows without changing them just for this. Regards, Vinay Sajip