Long remarks or instructions

[Moneo]

Ralph,

In reality, the REM or ' preceding every line does not look bad and does not take that amount of extra effort. The following is an example of comments that I used to put at the beginning of every program back in the 1990's.

Code:

REM
REM             QUICKBASIC COMPILE AND LINK REQUIREMENTS
REM             ========================================
REM
REM **********************************************************************
REM
REM  Required QuickBASIC 4.5 Program/Library Files:
REM
REM  - BC.EXE       9-28-88  (QuickBASIC compiler)
REM  - PRO419.LIB  10-16-93  (QuickPak Professional library, Crescent Sw.)
REM  - BCOM45.LIB   9-28-88  (QuickBASIC alternate run-time-module library)
REM  - SMALLERR.OBJ 9-28-88  (QuickBASIC supplied object module)
REM  - LINK.EXE     9-07-88  (Microsoft Overlay Linker Version 3.69)
REM
REM **********************************************************************
REM
REM  The following command is used for QuickBASIC compilation:
REM
REM      BC /O progname,,progname;
REM
REM  The following command is used to LINK output of compilation and
REM  produce the .EXE executable program.
REM
REM      LINK /E/NOE progname+SMALLERR,,NUL,PRO419.LIB
REM
REM **********************************************************************