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From: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: # comment character
Message-ID: <909@sdcsla.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 15:53:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcsla.909
Posted: Fri Jun 21 15:53:42 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Jun-85 04:19:16 EDT
References: <291@ucdavis.UUCP>
Reply-To: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
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Organization: UC San Diego: Institute for Cognitive Science
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Summary: because of "script"

In article <291@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli) writes:
>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?
>-- 
>					--rick heli

This is true of "sh", but not "csh".   I don't know what the reason
is, but it is useful when doing "script" (a Berkeley program which
records every character that passes through your tty -- very very
useful for giving example sessions, or proof of bugs).   I wish I
could make "csh" treat '#' as comment-leader.
-- 

Larry West			Institute for Cognitive Science
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