Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU From: MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Undelivered mail Message-ID: <12332@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 12 Mar 88 23:48:13 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 28 Subject: Re: Pascal --> C question [Non-Deliverable: User does not exist or has never logged on] Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Received: From UWAVM(MAILER) by ALASKA with Jnet id 8854 for SXJVK@ALASKA; Sat, 12 Mar 88 14:12 AST Received: by UWAVM (Mailer X1.25) id 5927; Sat, 12 Mar 88 15:11:05 PST Date: Sat, 12 Mar 88 06:13:45 GMT Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Sender: Info-C List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was news@sigi.Colorado.EDU From: Frank Swarbrick Subject: Re: Pascal --> C question Comments: To: info-c@BRL-SMOKE.arpa To: Vic Kapella Hey, I've got no problem with having a 'bit' data type! I've been wondering why it doesn't exist already. It seems rather silly for boolean values to take up a whole byte. But I'm sure there is a good reason for this. (There is, isn't there? :-) Frank Swarbrick (and his cat) swarbric@tramp.UUCP swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU ..!{hao|nbires}!boulder!tramp!swarbric "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends..."