On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Dan Lasley wrote:
> Your "054" is interpreted as octal 54, not decimal 54. We ran into
> this problem recently. There must be some historical precedent for it.
Here is an excerpt from "The C Programming language, 2nd edition" page 37.
*** begin ***
The value of an integer can be specified in octal or hexadecimal instead
of decimal. A lead 0 (zero) on an integer constant means octal; a leading
0x or 0X means hexadecimal.
*** end ***
Due to C and Un*x's close ties this might be why you were having the
problem.
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