while true (was Re: Must UNIX be a memory hog?)

[John Chew]

In article <29237 at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> 
  jas at ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland) writes:

[ while : ; do ... ; done ]

>Right; that's how I code my "while true" loops.  But what I haven't figured
>out is:  how do I optimize my "while false" loops?

Gee, that's obvious... you use an "until :" loop. :-)

John
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