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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MS-Kermit 3.14: Trailing comments
Date: 20 Jan 1995 16:39:12 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <3fo2ib$c19@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>,
Peter Schmolck <p41bsmk@kommsrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> wrote:
>In kermit.bwr it is said:
> Commands in command files can be continued by including "-" as the last
> character on the line, but NOT if the line ends with a trailing
> comment. In other words, you can't have a trailing comment on a
> continued line.
>...
>Just wondering. And, of course, it would be nice to be able to comment
>single commands in macro definitions. Any leads?
>
The ability to put trailing comments on the ends of continued lines is
not documented or supported in MS-DOS Kermit 3.14.
As you have observed, experimentation shows that it might work sometimes,
but you should not depend on it.
And speaking of trailing comments, lest anyone be prompted by this
posting to ask again:
There was a change in v3.14 from previous versions, in which a semicolon
(;), must be followed by at least one space or tab -- or else be the
first character on a line -- to be recognized as a comment introducer.
This is to allow semicolons to be used within commands like:
get dua0:[.temp]oofa.txt;3
or:
output \27[?62;1;2;4;8;9;15c\13
without any quoting. Previously the first semicolon in each of these
commands would have started a comment.
- Frank