diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 3b66ac4..7d14180 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5.264
+1.5.265
diff --git a/base/netcmp.c b/base/netcmp.c
index 94e52a8..6809a5c 100644
--- a/base/netcmp.c
+++ b/base/netcmp.c
@@ -6124,7 +6124,9 @@ PropertyMatch(struct Element *E1, struct Element *E2,
 	    	if (kl2 != NULL)
 		    break;	// Property is required
 	    }
-	    else if (vl2->value.ival != 1)
+	    else if ((vl2->type == PROP_INTEGER) && (vl2->value.ival != 1))
+		break;	// Property M != 1 or S != 1 is a mismatch.
+	    else if ((vl2->type == PROP_DOUBLE) && (vl2->value.dval != 1))
 		break;	// Property M != 1 or S != 1 is a mismatch.
 	 }
 	 if (vl2->type != PROP_ENDLIST) {
diff --git a/base/netfile.c b/base/netfile.c
index d9e6262..ff1781b 100644
--- a/base/netfile.c
+++ b/base/netfile.c
@@ -587,6 +587,12 @@ void SkipTokNoNewline(char *delimiter)
 /*									*/
 /* Modified 3/30/2015 to include the condition where a comment line is	*/
 /* in the middle of a series of continuation lines.			*/
+/*									*/
+/* Modified 1/3/2024 to avoid skipping two lines if a line has only the	*/
+/* comment character '*' followed by a newline.  It seems that '\n' is	*/
+/* being ignored in WHITESPACE_DELIMITER, but it's easier to write the	*/
+/* code to find the exception rather than track down the problem in	*/
+/* GetNextLine().							*/
 /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
 void SpiceTokNoNewline(void)
@@ -598,8 +604,14 @@ void SpiceTokNoNewline(void)
     while (nexttok == NULL) {
 	contline = getc(infile);
 	if (contline == '*') {
-	   GetNextLine(WHITESPACE_DELIMITER);
-	   SkipNewLine(NULL);
+	   char testline = ' ';
+	   while ((testline == ' ') || (testline == '\t'))
+	      testline = getc(infile);
+           if (testline != '\n') {
+              ungetc(testline, infile);
+	      GetNextLine(WHITESPACE_DELIMITER);
+	      SkipNewLine(NULL);
+	   }
 	   continue;
 	}
 	else if (contline != '+') {