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Re: /etc/modules comment is wrong



On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:53:28PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 03:25:21AM +0200, Jacobo221 wrote:
> > In Debian Sarge, in /etc/modules out-of-the-box, the comments say that
> > nything after '#' is ingored. But this is wrong. Only lines which BEGIN
> > with '#' are ignored. This should be changed.
> 
> Hmm.  'Comments begin with a "#", and everything on the line after 
> them are ignored', says mine.

Yes, but in some languages the "start the comment here" string (for instance
"//") can come at any point in the line, say after an executed statement. 
Jacobo is saying that the "#" only works a the beginning of a line.
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