/bin/sh feature?

[ted at usceast.UUCP]

<: a do nothing bug line>

>This points out the hazard of using ':' for a comment delimiter instead
>of '#'.  

>... I advise my shell programmers to use '#'
>as the comment delimiter.
>				Ben Goldfarb
>				{duke,decvax,princeton}!ucf-cs!goldfarb

Good advice, unless you have a fairly vanilla V7 or you are trying
to write portable shell scripts. In the original bourne shell the
# for comments did (does) not exist.
		
			Ted Nolan		..usceast!ted
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