Subj : talking to myself
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Feb 15 2005 09:40 am

Hey Russell!

Feb 15 09:01 05, Maurice Kinal wrote to Russell Tiedt:

 MK> useable ID string here at Kumalockasun.  So far the best I can come 
 MK> up with is, yydddmmssx, where yy=two digit year (100 years), ddd=day 
 MK> of year, mm=minutes, ss=seconds, and x=actual message number 
 MK> incremented in the message creation loop which would then limit pkt 
 MK> sizes to a total of 16 messages.  If more then 16 messages then the 
 MK> entire cycle is repeated and the ss part incremented by one if the 
 MK> first pass took less then a second, which is entirely possible, 
 MK> actually probable here for a whole sh*tload of pkts.  :-)

One other thing I forgot to mention about the above is the 8.3 DOS limitation 
for pkt names and that can be resolved from the above by using yymmddss.pkt, or 
whatever suitable already needed and carried variables, to generate a unique 
pkt name.  The only thing one would have to worry about is not to create a dupe 
pkt name within the time it is storing pkt's to when those pkt's are 
transported to wherever since pkt names shouldn't, and probably aren't, used 
for dupe checking any particular messages.  With this addition I believe that 
takes care of compatibility if the lowest common denominator - the most 
crippled OS, DOS - is taken into account across the board.  Near as I can 
figure, with a message size limitation within the message creation loop, the 
above ideology ought to work no matter which OS or language employed is used.  
It should work unless someone else spots something I've forgotten to take into 
account.  That happens.  Sigh.

Life is good,
Maurice

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