On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 01:30:59 GMT, "YK" <YKnot@home.invalid> wrote:

>BoB wrote:
>> On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:25:10 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:45:48 -0400, BoB <rhoward30@myrealbox.com>
>>> wrote:
>> Hostess reduces the 112k file to 93k. I assumed this was from dup
>> reduction since this is what the hostess file says:
>>
>> "It stores the hostnames in an indexed database, eliminating
>> duplicates and placing hosts into logical groups that can be ordered for
>> efficiency."
>>
>> Wonder what the reduction is?
>
>HOSTESS removes all comments. Anything after # is removed. The comment
>is only exported to the HOSTS file if you use Groups and the first creation
>information line.

Ah So. Thanks YK.

BoB