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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Doug pointed out that you cannot remark things out in 
> > shell scripts using #, 
> 
> That is not correct.  In BASH shell scripts, you certainly
> can remark things out using #.   

He further explained now that you cannot put a # after a line ending in / 
because that means it is actually in the middle of a line (which was 
written with / so that it would not go off the right edge of the screen).

We now have a library book on programming with linux, and a chapter on 
shell scripts.

> 
> > which is why my lynx compiled without ssl.  Any lines 
> > following a line with # were apparently interpreted wrongly.  
> 
> Perhaps you are confusing shell scripts with C source code?
> GCC does not interpret # as a remark.  
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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