"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This removes the '#' and '(' tests and adds a '$' test instead although I
>> have no idea what it is actually good for - but hey, if that's what GNU
>> diff does...
>
> $ starts a shell (or Perl) variable...
>
>> Pasky only went and did as Junio sayeth.
>
> Horst adds a guesse...
If I have to guess, I think that is from VMS.
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