From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Sample C++ code in c.o.m.d
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 05:24:42 GMT
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Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com> wrote in message
im DOT a DOT little DOT fish AT bigpond DOT com...
> Damian Yerrick <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > file://start of hello.c
> > /* c comments are perfectly OK */
> > file://but comments like this screw up
> > file://end of hello.c
> >
> > It works fine when I remove the comments.
> > Funny, C comments don't give me any problems.
>
> Damian, obviously there is going to be a problem with
> a comment that starts with file://. Microsoft Outlook
> Express frefixes all '//' (I had to put mine in
> quotes to stop it :-))

// Didn't have to; I've found that comments with a
// space between the // and the text don't expand to
file://

> with file: as if it was going to be a link.

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Damian Yerrick
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