Subj : talking to myself
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 06:19 pm

Hello Maurice.

15 Feb 05 09:40, you wrote to me:

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

I wonder what the probability of two seperate systems feeding another system 
creating identical pkt names and one pkt overwriting the first to arrive?

BTW, just picked up a book on "regular expressions" for song here yesterday, 
so I just might get to do some perl scripting yet. :-)

Russell

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