Re: Commenting out lines in 'guide.dat'

toadatrix Oct 29 7:50 PM

To get it to work in my version of Guide8 I had to put the # BEFORE
the equal sign, not after it. For example:

DELTA_T#=-10000,10000:63.829,0.0,0.0

It just won't work for me unless I do it this way.

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Laren Dart <sandman@g...> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> You said once that the DELTA_T line is the only exception to
placing the #
> at the beginning of the line. (I don't remember why you said that
was,
> though.)
>
> I just checked and found that
> DELTA_T=#-10000,10000:63.829,0.0,0.0 # Constant value
> does rem out the line, but
> #DELTA_T=-10000,10000:63.829,0.0,0.0 # Constant value
> does not.
>
> This has always worked for me. I use the second # in the line so
that when
> I removed the first # in to use an equation, the comment would be
remarked
> out.
>
>
>
> At 06:02 PM 10/29/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Hi John,
> >
> > To comment out a line, have it _begin_ with '#', not end.
> >
> > With the setup you've got, the value for the DELTA_T text
> >is being set to three different values, two of them beginning
> >with a '#'. Guide is looking at the first and ignoring the
> >next two.
> >
> >-- Bill
>
>
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