Re: best method of commenting out blocks of postscript?

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From: Glenn Reid
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 21:55

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In article <1035@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG> woody@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Woodrow Baker) writes:

>Remember that the NEC 890 throws the comments away at the
>serial input routine.  That is, if you test a line for a
>comment, you will never see it on the NEC 890.

Nonsense.  The language scanner throws away comments, not the serial
processor.  If you read the input stream as DATA (as with "readline"
or "readstring"), you will get every single byte, including comments.

Glenn Reid

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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
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Subject: Re: best method of commenting out blocks of postscript?
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