Louis V. Lambrecht wrote:

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> rem the backslash is used as an escape character in shell world.

Yes, that's quite familiar and I use it a lot, both for long lines and

for escaping special characters (quotes, etc).  What is new use to me is

that the comment lines can be affected.  I simply hadn't tried it.
However, when it is explained that way, as an escape character, it makes

sense: the newline character following the backslash is escaped.
-Lars