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Aihuxg.117 net.xbsd utzoo!decvax!duke!mhtsa!ihnss!ihuxk!ihuxg!grg Thu Oct 1 22:12:50 1981 Csh true/false The recent note about csh describes what seems to be not a bug, but the proverbial "feature"!!

Csh defines true/false as 1/0, presumably as this is C-like. Bsh (bourne shell, /bin/sh) uses 0/1. While such definitions have some rationale, the problem is the entire program base use exit(0) for success, exit(1) for errors.

The inertia of history overweighs any beauty of convention, and the recommended "fix" seems justified.

Greg Guthrie BTL.

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