Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: > rem the backslash is used as an escape character in shell world.
Yes, that's quite familiar and I use it a lot, both for long lines and for escaping special characters (quotes, etc). What is new use to me is that the comment lines can be affected. I simply hadn't tried it. However, when it is explained that way, as an escape character, it makes sense: the newline character following the backslash is escaped. -Lars
