On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:48:46PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:01:48AM -0800, Professional Software
Engineering wrote:
#* ^TO_user
* ^TO_user #comment
Are VERY different - the former comments out the entire line *BEFORE* it
has been parsed to be a condition line (and therefore, is not a condition
line...
Regarding the following bit from procmailrc(5):
Comments
A word beginning with # and all the following characters
up to a NEWLINE are ignored. This does not apply to con-
dition lines, which cannot be commented.
This seems almost tongue-in-cheek, and probably all but guaranteed
to trip up at least some readers.
Perhaps adding the word (?) "in-line" at the end might clarify things?
--
Ken Irving <jkirving(_at_)mosquitonet(_dot_)com>
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