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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: batch and /usr/lib/cron/queuedefs
Message-ID: <2790@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 3 Jan 90 21:00:45 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>From the hp-ux 7.0 distribution:

Yup, that's the man page I did (the "info posted in another group" for a
Sun was the SunOS version of the man page; I also did what I hoped was a
vanilla S5R3 version, and posted that as well).  They refer to
"non-comment lines", but deleted the bit that said

	Lines beginning with # are comments, and are ignored.

The S5R3 code doesn't specifically *check* for "#"; what it does is
ignore any lines that don't begin with characters other than "a" to (not
through) 'a'+NQUEUE - i.e., if the first character of the line isn't a
valid queue name, the line is ignored, and "#" isn't a valid queue name.

I don't know what the S5R2 version did, but if it did that or if the
HP-UX version is based on the S5R3 version, they should reinstate that
line for no other reason than to make the sentence

	Each non-comment line in this file describes one queue.

make sense.

BTW, I presume they also picked up my PROTO(4) page to describe ".proto"
files for "cron"/"at".  I don't know if AT&T picked up either one - they
didn't provide those pages in S5R2 or S5R3, which may be why it's not in
some systems.