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From: atchison@umn-cs.UUCP (Lee Atchison)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: 2.8BSD Bourne shell: no comments?
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 11:57:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 11:57:29 1985
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Some versions of the Bourne shell don't allow the '#' character as a comment.
The version included with 2.8 and 2.9 don't.  There have been fixes posted
to net.bugs.2bsd about this, but I don't know what the fix is off hand.
However, you can use the ':' character as a comment in these versions of the
Bourne shell.

		-lee

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Lee Atchison
CSci Dept.
126 Lind Hall
Univ. of Minn.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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