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Can't type #

Posted on May 18, 2014

I’m trying to comment out the local: 127.0.0.1 line (or whatever) but the ‘#’ key is showing up as ‘3’ and it doesn’t work as a comment :( PLEASE HELP I NEED THIS ASAP :cry:



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