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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: /bin/true
Message-ID: <401@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 15:02:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 29 15:02:05 1986
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In article <765@bentley.UUCP> kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
>Btw, I never use "true".  ":" is equivalent, and is more likely to be
>a builtin.  I've never had a use for "false".

Their main use is to hang system-type links on.
For example, on the system I'm typing this on,
"gould" is linked to "true" and other system
types such as "vax" are linked to "false".
These commands are very useful if you maintain
code for multiple systems all in the same place.