On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote: > When all else fails, RTFM. :-) Mine tells me (under "ARITHMETIC > EVALUATION") that: > > Constants with a leading 0 are interpreted as octal num- > bers. A leading 0x or 0X denotes hexadecimal. Otherwise, > numbers take the form [base#]n, where base is a decimal > number between 2 and 64 representing the arithmetic base, > and n is a number in that base. > Which manual is that? I've been using to shell programming books, (they're at home so I can't tell you the titles right not,) and the Complete Command Reference book, although that one is really out of date (1997!).
None of these books say anytyhing about how 'let' interprets input values. Not that I've seen, anyway. -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) You can always tell a Texan, but you can't tell him much. - Chris Wall ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
