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Re: OT microsoft "feature"

From: Charlie Root <root () energistic com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:47:04 -0500

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:14:56AM -0700, Schmidt, Michael R. wrote:

I will point out that octal only has digits from 0 to 7, so 092 
cannot be interpreted as octal


Sure. And there's the potential bug. FreeBSD interprest 092 as 92 since
its clearly not octal. MS interprets it as 74. Go figure.

-Steve

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