Dumb JFET Question

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Have a Fluke meter with diode test function...handy for quick BJT tests...but is this diode test safe for testing JFETs? Was told long ago never to forward-bias the Gate-Source, but I'm assuming that the meter diode test would not hurt the JFET.

Is that the case? Or is there a danger of damaging the JFET be doing this...?
 
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