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Date:      Fri, 05 Feb 1999 02:52:43 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: loader has changed
Message-ID:  <36B9DE6B.A6A1071C@newsguy.com>
References:  <199902041723.CAA00600@daniel.sobral>

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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> 
> I just committed patches to make "include" work with source code.
                                                       ^^^^^^
That should have been _forth_ source code.

> Previously, it only processed builtins, greatly diminishing both
> ficl and include's usefulness.
> 
> As a result of this change, the special behavior of the chacters @,
> # and - at the beginning of script lines is lost. They have been
> replaced as follow:
> 
> @       Lines will *not* be echoed anymore by default. Thus, lines
>         with "@" can simply remove it. If one wants to echo a line,
>         use the character "$", with a space after it.
> 
> #       Use "\" followed by a space.
> 
> -       Use "%" followed by a space.
> 
> Examples:
> 
> \ This is a comment
> load dont.echo
> $ load echo
> % load ignore.errors
> 
> Since the new "characters" are forth words, they can be used anywhere in
> the line. So you can add comments *after* the command, for example. They
> can also be used together:
> 
> % $ load /kernel.experimental
> 
> I apologize for the inconvenience this may cause, but the previous way
> is highly incompatible with forth.
> 
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral                  (8-DCS)
> dcs@gns.com.br
> 
> The trouble with eating Italian food is that
> five or six days later you're hungry again.
>                 -- George Miller
> 
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dcs@newsguy.com

	She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can
a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?


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