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On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 20:10:28 +0000, Simon Ward <simon+python@bleah.co.uk>
declaimed the following:

>
>0 = success and non-zero = failure is the meme established, rather than 0 = true, non-zero = false.
>
>It's not just used by UNIX, and is not necessarily defined by the shell either (bash was mentioned elsewhere in the thread). There is probably a system that pre-dates UNIX that I uses/used this too, but I don't know.
>

	I miss VMS...

	Odd => true, even => false
	Odd -> success, +even -> warning, -even -> error (odd may have been
success vs info>
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