Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!natmlab.dap.csiro.au!ditsydh.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU!evans From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix-386 Message-ID: <1990Oct22.123950.26038@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> Date: 22 Oct 90 12:39:50 GMT References: <1132@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia Lines: 9 In article <1132@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes: >Bruce Evans (evans@syd.dit.csiro.au) writes: >> It's actually zap1. This writes the byte '\001' at offset 15 in >Yup. But is the 15 hex, decimal or octal??? Decimal. Anyone pedantic enough to write news with C octal character constants is likely to write on the numbers on the same line in the same language. -- Bruce Evans evans@syd.dit.csiro.au