Can somebody explain how or when I can use "#if 0"?

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From: Kang H. Lee
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 06:01

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Hi!

I was looking at some code, and found this preprocessor:

#if 0
    ....
#else
    ....
#endif

Can somebody explain to me clearly how this works? 

thanks in advance.

Kanghoon

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