Subj : Re: possible overflow? To : comp.programming From : Willem Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 07:55 am Peter wrote: ) Your assumption of ASCII is not required since the C language requires ) the characters '0'..'9' be consecutive codings [although it does not ) require the same for 'a'..'z' or 'A'..'Z'.] I wasn't aware of that, so I stuck with the safer explanation of ASCII, which fails on 80% of all enterprise systems... Err, I mean, works on 95% of all computers. SaSW, Willem -- Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements made in the above text. For all I know I might be drugged or something.. No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you ! #EOT .