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Subject: Re: C preprocessor portability question -- initial #
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Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 05:00:34 EST
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In article <2484@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	Back in the "good old days" (i.e. v6) a c source file was only run
> through the preprocessor if the first character in the file was a '#'.

Now I understand why it's so rare to see identifying comments at
the beginning of Unix source files!

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,nike}!cit-vax!speck