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From: whitten@ihnp1.UUCP (whitten)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: How to put comments in nroff/troff source: '"\'?   '..'?
Message-ID: <251@ihnp1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 08:17:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  3 08:17:10 1984
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In answer to your question of putting block comments in nroff/troff,
you should put the three character sequence '.\"' at the begining of
each line.  The period must be the first character in the line, but
the position of '\"' is not critical.

					Tom Whitten
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