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From: jim@ism780b.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: /bin/sh feature? - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 00:42:41 EDT
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ism780b!jim    Jul 14 13:11:00 1984

> Sounds like useful behavior; by preceeding a statement with a colon it gets
> commented out even if it is continued on the next line, no?

Yes, but you have to keep in mind that it is syntactically a command so, e.g.,

: (

does not work ("sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected").

-- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)