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From: chinn@apcisea.UUCP (David Chinn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Comments in /usr/lib/crontab
Message-ID: <272@apcisea.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 20:16:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  6 20:16:47 1987
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Organization: Apollo Computer, Inc; Bellevue, WA
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Keywords: Is it possible?

In article <306@baskin.UUCP>, wmk@baskin.UUCP (Bill Kules) writes:
> We are running UTX/32 (a 4.2bsd port) on a Gould computer.  Since our
> crontab file is getting fairly large, I'd like to put comments in it.
> Comments are not mentioned in our documentation (cron(8)), so I'm
> asking the net... Is this possible, and if so what is the format?

# seems to work as a comment indicator when placed at the first
character position of the line.  This works with two unixes i've
worked with; Ultrix 32 from DEC and Domain/IX from Apollo.


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