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From: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: /bin/sh feature?
Message-ID: <1370@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Jul-84 17:43:28 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 15 17:43:28 1984
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The problem with using '#' as a comment character is that it is non-portable
to v7 (and earlier) systems (I'm not sure about Sys III/V).  In these, the
only way to add a comment is the ':' command (and using quotes to protect
the string).  A further peeve about '#' is that, at least on 4.2 BSD,
saying 'rm #*' doesn't work from the tty in sh since the '#' makes the
rest of the line be treated as a comment.  Csh does not allow '#' from 
the terminal.

Charles LaBrec
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