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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: best method of commenting out blocks of postscript?
Keywords: comment blocks
Message-ID: <153@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 7 Mar 90 21:55:46 GMT
References: <22649@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <18106@rpp386.cactus.org> <1035@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG>
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In article <1035@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG> woody@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Woodrow Baker) writes:

>Remember that the NEC 890 throws the comments away at the
>serial input routine.  That is, if you test a line for a
>comment, you will never see it on the NEC 890.

Nonsense.  The language scanner throws away comments, not the serial
processor.  If you read the input stream as DATA (as with "readline"
or "readstring"), you will get every single byte, including comments.

Glenn Reid