Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!pilchuck!apcisea!chinn 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 Article-I.D.: apcisea.272 Posted: Tue Jan 6 20:16:47 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Jan-87 18:55:45 EST Sender: chinn@apcisea.UUCP Organization: Apollo Computer, Inc; Bellevue, WA Lines: 14 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. ...uw-beaver david m. chinnn !tikal!pilchuck apollo computer inc !apcisea!chinn bellevue, washington