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Continuation lines

A colon (`:') as the first non-blank character of a line indicates that it is continuing a definition begun on a previous line. An arbitrary number of spaces can precede the colon and at least one must follow it. An unlimited number of continuation lines are allowed.



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CURSA Catalogue and Table Manipulation Applications
Starlink User Note 190
A.C. Davenhall
4th November 2001
E-mail:starlink@jiscmail.ac.uk

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