G'Day Paul,
 
-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to Frank Adam <=-
 FA> strcmp("hello","hello");  hardly FALSE, but it is 0.

 PE> strcmp() returns neither true nor false, it returns an indicator to
 PE> say less than, equal to, or greater than.  You need to inspect the
 PE> indicator yourself.  It is not even boolean.
Oh-kay,that was a bad example:)

 PE> system() returns an implementation-defined value, but it would be
 PE> integer, not a boolean value.
FINE ! Be that way:-) 
I don't like using system() anyway :)
         
I was only suggesting, that to me there is an inconsistency there.
After all if an operation was successful, in boolean terms it would be 
TRUE, so functions returning 1 on success and 0 on failure would make more 
sense.

But i doubt the rest of the world would go off, and re-write their codes
just to comply with my thinking.  

What do you mean "Thank God" ? :^) 

  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).
  
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