In message <5725AF6EE9FAD51195DC009027E3770201266556 at az33exm35.corp.mot.com> you wrote: > > As to why octal, I couldn't hazard a guess...
Most of the original Unix code used octal constants. They were pretty popular on the PDP computers... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de "Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." - Robert Orben ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
