Linux and readline

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:07:32AM -0400, Kenneth Brody may or may not have
> proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
>>> Why not just use
>>> "32127"?  It's going to stop at the first newline it finds anyway, if you
>>> use READLINE().
>> "32127"?
> 
> "32767" is what I meant.

I figured as much.

> Don't ask how I got 32127.  Well, okay...I'll
> tell you.  I basically just multiplied 8032 by 4 and subtracted 1.  But
> 8032 isn't 1024 * 4, it's a port that I use for networking applications.
> *laugh*  
> 
> Lonnnnng day...apparently.

"On two occasions I have been asked,—'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the 
machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' … I am not able 
rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such 
a question."

-- 
Kenneth Brody