Hum, can you give us an example of line starting with a single (or double
colon) ?  I *think* if you stream file using Vesoft's Steamx/3000, there are
some features requiring use of "::" at beggining of line.  But it's been
quite some time since I "played" with that so I may be wrong...

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"Peter Smithson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
> says...
>
> Thanks for the replies.  I think I get it now. I was wondering how it'd
> cope with things like -
>
> !job ...
> !sort
> i infile
> o outfile
> etc.
>
> If it ignores the first character all the time then the input for the
> SORT command would be lost but I see you can only use either -
>
> 1) The character specified on the STREAM command
> 2) The first character of the first record
> 3) Colon (even though the manual tells you not to!)
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
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