>Depends on whether your NOT operator is logical or bitwise, hence the different operators for AND (&, &&), OR (|, ||) & NOT (~, !). As TRUE & FALSE are logical results, then I would assume ! had been used for the negation of FALSE. At least in the original of Stroustrup's books on C++, then the result should be 1. But I have seen several (older) C compilers return -1 for TRUE.

In my original post, I mentioned that in QuickBASIC (or just plain ole BASIC), the NOT unary operator returns the bitwise compliment.

>My view is that if you are concerned with the value of TRUE, then you are likely to be doing something dubious. I have occassionally come across code like

It was more of a rhetorical question than anything else. Being a old "bithead" from working in assembler years ago, something like this just naturally aroused my curiousity. Nothing earth shattering or anything like that.

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>P.S. did you see my query in the chatter section, on how to get auto-quote working, may be that wasn't the right place to send it, but how do you get it to work ?

Hmm, I seem to recall that you mentioned that you clicked the "Auto-Quote" checked box. The question then is, "Did you click the Save button then?"