[aklug] Re: perl doesn't natively do booleans?????

From: <bryanm@acsalaska.net>
Date: Fri Aug 20 2010 - 16:48:39 AKDT

On Thu, August 19, 2010 10:22 am, James Zuelow wrote:
> jfzuelow@mis-jz-lnx:~$ ping 192.168.050.001
> PING 192.168.050.001 (192.168.40.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

Wild. Do other OSes (say, Windows) do it this way too?

It would be weird if different OSes interpreted addresses in
different ways. On the other hand, as odd as the quote above
looks to a linux geek, I imagine it would give a Windows-head
a major freak-out.

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