On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:06:43 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:
>
>I have:
> SET SNAP_APM_REPAINT=1
>What's the difference between the '1' and the 'Y'...?
One is a "1" and the other is a "Y". The ASCII value of "1" is 49, or in hexadecimal 31. The value of
"Y" is 89 or in hexadecimal 59.
Config sys processing does not take many "humanistic" permutations/precautions. To you a "1"
could easily mean a "Y" but for a computer this is most assuredly not the case.
You could call it bad programming. Or you could see that by eliminating a lot of possibilities and
instead demanding a single predictable response reduces the time required for the boot process
(which is already fairly time consuming).
HTH
Jeffrey R Smick http://home.earthlink.net/~jeff.smick
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