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contain new-line separated variable
assignments. Empty lines and lines
starting with ; or # will be ignored,
- which may be used for commenting. The
- parser strips leading and
- trailing whitespace from the values
+ which may be used for commenting. A line
+ ending with a backslash will be concatenated
+ with the following one, allowing multiline variable
+ definitions. The parser strips leading
+ and trailing whitespace from the values
of assignments, unless you use
double quotes (").</para>