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Article #623231Re: Tahoe and Alpha Architectures
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 15:12
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 15:12
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> writes: >On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 12:10:03 +0100 >Gareth's Downstairs Computer ><headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> On 27/04/2018 22:33, Charles Richmond wrote: >> > True should return *one*... zero is false. >> > >> >> Nah ... -1 otherwise NOT TRUE will not be the same >> as FALSE, unless only a single bit is used as the >> logic representation. > > In C the convention is 0 false, non=zero true, in shell it is the >other way round. Strange considering that both conventions come from the >same place and approximate time. Not so bad when you consider '0' as success, rather than true. The utility named 'true' returns success to the shell by returning 0.
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