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Date:      Sat, 27 Jun 1998 07:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net>
To:        sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: comments in dot files
Message-ID:  <199806271100.HAA10013@lucy.bedford.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980627190251.55632@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Jun 27, 98 07:02:51 pm"

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Sue Blake wrote:
> If I put a lot of comments in shell startup files like .bashrc, will that
> slow it down or cause any other problems?

Nope. The shell can read and forget a commented line as fast as lightning.

> And how come there's a /usr/local/share/skel but it's empty?
> (The goodies are in /usr/share/skel)

For startup files for optional applications. 

Dave
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