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Jun 09.2006

On this page:
[url=http://essentialinux.com/basics.php]Linux Basics[/url]

You can see the following text at the bottom of the page:

[code]
<!– wget url-to-tar.bz2-file tar -xvvjf tar.bz2-file cd brand-new-folder ./configure –prefix=/usr/local make su #and enter your root pass when asked make install ldconfig #not always needed, but can’t hurt exit –>
[/code]

If you look at the code, that text is enclosed in comments. Why should it appear displayed in the browser? At least, in Firefox on linux it is displayed. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen
[url]http://what-is-what.com[/url]

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@ray326Jun 09.2006 — Yea, it only shows up in web browsers, not in IE. I assume it's because of the --prefix sequence, which makes the whole comment invalid and therefor displayable as raw text.
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@dotancohenauthorJun 09.2006 — Thanks, I didn't realise that "--" is illegal in comments. I thought that only "-->" would be illegal.

@coothead: Yeah, got around.
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@ray326Jun 12.2006 — -- is the "end of comment", the > is just the end of the tag. Sounds strange at first but kind of makes sense once you think about it awhile.
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