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From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig.c && netmask
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At Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:17:38 +0300,
Artis Caune wrote:
> 
> How come that ifconfig prints netmask in hex?
> 
> Isn't
>    "inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0"
> more readable than
>    "inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000"
> 
> why 'route get x.x.x.x' gives mask in decimal?
> ;))
> 
> 
> Is it some posix standart or something historical or will it brake some
> scripts?
> 

It's historical.

Later,
George