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  1. Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
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  3. In article <1992Mar31.024454.23050@uunet.uu.net> djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
  4. >The only explicit mention of `#' for the shell in p1003.2a is in the
  5. >description of the Vi editing mode.  It's a command to comment-out the
  6. >current line (excerpted below).  ...
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  8. That's disgusting!
  9. If 1003.2 is going to break zillions of existing carefuly-written shell
  10. scripts, then it ought not to be adopted.
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  13. Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 48
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