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From: cccsam@ucdavis.UUCP (Sam McCall - Hacker In Residency)
Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.news.b
Subject: Re: 2.10.3 unbatch bug and fix
Message-ID: <250@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 23:51:31 EST
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.250
Posted: Thu Mar 20 23:51:31 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Mar-86 22:07:16 EST
References: <243@micropro.UUCP> <9980@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Organization: University of California, Davis
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>In article <243@micropro.UUCP> news@micropro.UUCP (USENET administrator) writes:
> >< 		while (strncmp(buf, "#! rnews ", 9) 
> >< 			|| strncmp(buf, "! rnews ", 8)) { /* kludge for bug */
> >---
> >> 		while (!strncmp(buf, "#! rnews ", 9) 
> >> 			&& !strncmp(buf, "! rnews ", 8)) { /* kludge for bug */
> 
> Aren't these two the same by De Morgan's law?
> -- 
>    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
>    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell
> 
>           You have the right to express your opinions,
>           but that doesn't mean your opinions are right !

nope.  (a or b) != (!a and !b), but !(a or b) == (!a and !b).
thus, for the two to have been equal, you would have wanted to see

 		while !(strncmp(buf, "#! rnews ", 9) 
 			|| strncmp(buf, "! rnews ", 8)) { /* kludge for bug */

as the first example.


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