I mentioned in a post, while anonymous, about removing padding Re: Removing padding from numeric IP addresses that it was probably something to be avoided since I remember versions of SunOS interpreting them as octal.

I think it was a problem in their IP code. It was a long time ago and probably fixed i.e. 1988?

Mike
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