Mensanator wrote:
On Oct 29, 4:17�pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote:
I contest that; my observation is that it's entirely an artifact
of legacy software,
Really? Don't they still use octal for this stuff?
$ ls -l
total 1717
-r-xr-x---+ 1 mensanator Users 57 Mar 29 2008 Cygwin.bat
-r-xr-x---+ 1 mensanator Users 7022 Mar 29 2008 Cygwin.ico
d---------+ 5 mensanator None 0 Apr 21 2008 Seed7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mensanator None 15870 Apr 11 2008 a.exe
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This would be 0755, wouldn't it? You certainly wouldn't want
to try to figure out the decimal equivalent.
There was a suggestion to dump octal literals. The above is why they
were not.
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