# comment character

[Gilles Chartrand]

> Can anyone tell me why the # character is a comment in INTERACTIVE
> mode in the shell?  I mean, who goes around making comments that
> will never be seen again while running the shell in interactive
> mode?

	I think the general design of both csh and sh is that they work
the same way reguardless of where the input is comming from (a file
or a terminal).  In UN*X, by the way, a terminal is a "special" file.
That way a user doesn't have to learn to sets of conflicting rules.

					Gilles
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