Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site luke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!bene!luke!itkin From: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: leading comments Message-ID: <318@luke.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 16:16:58 EDT Article-I.D.: luke.318 Posted: Fri Aug 16 16:16:58 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 04:54:16 EDT Reply-To: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Distribution: net Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA Lines: 23 Summary: I'm posting this to net.sources, but it's also applicable to mod.sources and net.sources.games. I'll assume that all three are read by the same group of people. Most of us, when posting a source file (shell archive or otherwise), usually put some nice commentary at the beginning. Unfortunately, this means that the file must be (1) saved to a file, (2) edited to remove the commentary, and (3) processed by the shell. I'd like to suggest that when we put some commentary at the beginning, each line be preceded by the shell comment character (#). This would allow the file to be saved (at least from rn with `w') without the header information and processed immediately by the shell. For those who don't want to save the source, this allows piping directly to the shell (again, rn's `w'). Small savings, but nice. Don't you think? -- *** * Steven List @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA * Just part of the stock at "Uncle Bene's Farm" * {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!luke!itkin ***