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From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: # comment character
Message-ID: <291@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 15:00:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.291
Posted: Thu Jun 20 15:00:12 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 02:53:37 EDT
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Organization: University of California, Davis
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Can anyone tell me why the # character is a comment in INTERACTIVE
mode in the shell?  I mean, who goes around making comments that
will never be seen again while running the shell in interactive
mode?
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					--rick heli
					(... ucbvax!ucdavis!groucho!ccrrick)