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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: C preprocessor portability question -- initial #
Message-ID: <633@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 00:14:55 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.633
Posted: Wed Nov 26 00:14:55 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Nov-86 09:51:58 EST
References: <2484@phri.UUCP> <1153@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: Header comments existed.

In article <1153@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler) writes:
>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!

I don't see that.  A bunch of software came out in those days:
--------------------
#

/*********************************************************************\
**
** myprog - my program
**
** Syntax:
**	myprog [ -option ] [ files ... ]
	... etc.
**
\*********************************************************************/

#etc.
--------------------
I authored some of it, and tried to encourage this kind of
documentation in my group.  These days, we just lop the first
two lines.
(For people with line truncators, line
3 ends "**\" and line 11+N ends "**/",
just for pretty.)
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
			jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)