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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help needed: /etc/dialups and /etc/d_passwd
Message-ID: <15264@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 17:00:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 17:00:46 1987
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Summary: Wake up....

In article <15221@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

> Trailing white space is stripped from the beginning of the line.

which should teach him not to drink and post at the same time... (just
kidding).

The first white space character on the line (blank, tab, newline),
and everything following it, is deleted from the line.  I guess you
can use that to put in comments....