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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Bit manipulation
Date: 2000/11/21
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lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) writes:

> Giving something back to the community (bash scripts to ease development):
> <snip bash scripts>

These scripts may be useful, and they even may be well written. But
since there are no comments, and no other descriptions of what they
are supposed to do, or why I might want to use them, I can't tell!

Bash syntax includes comments; please use them!

-- 
-- Stephe