Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:14:50 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VM bogon? Was: Re: NIS breakage Message-ID: <199701220414.PAA01281@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Is there general consensus that users will understand the need >to enter '0x' in front of hex values? Some won't, but most cases should start with 0xMN... with the cursor initially on the M (not invisible and at the end like now), so it would takes extra keystrokes to not use 0x. >strtoul() in (the old) userconfig is somewhat broken I think; is it legal >to say : > > unsigned long acc; > ... > acc = -acc; Perfectly legal. It has completely specified behaviour for all values of `acc', which is more than can be said for `signed long acc'. strtoul.c should still be essentially the same as the library version. >> Del is fairly useless as an editing key (unless >It has to be to cover all the possible misconfigurations of serial >terminals. Of the collection I tested with, I met some that could >be convinced to emit either BS or DEL, some had keys for both, and >one unit had a "<-" key which emitted DEL only. Yes, it isn't great for deleting devices either. Bruce
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