On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 22:20:36 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 20:13:11 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Please,
>> Have a look at the "mailer" line in the header of this message.
>> ;UE == User Edition.
>> and .glennmcc to indicate who compliled this particular core.exe
>> Comments, suggestions...
>> Do you like this idea or not?
>> Should I also add the date it was compiled?
>> Arachne V1.71;UE.glennmcc-Oct_06,2002
> Glenn,
> Adding date would help sort things out possibly, but I have a
> suggestion: Instead of spelled month use hex like I do in my file
> extension on documents:
> Oct_06,2002 would become A062002, whereas July_06,2002 would be 7062002
> ...
> It's not to keep secrets or have an "in crowd" -- although they are
> the ones most likely to need the info -- but to maintain a standard
> string length for the date variable.
> l.d.
> ====
Ok, that's not a bad idea.
However, I prefer dec over hex.
So, how about yymmdd ?
Arachne V1.71;UE.glennmcc-021006
That's the naming convention I'm using for each of my EXEs
Volume in drive E is MCCORKLE_03
Directory of E:\ARACHNE\ASRC\ASRC171\!NEW
. <DIR> 5-02-02 8:29p
.. <DIR> 5-02-02 8:29p
020502 EXE 461872 5-02-02 8:54p
020503 EXE 461984 5-03-02 8:37p
020507 EXE 461984 5-07-02 8:45p
020508 EXE 461984 5-08-02 9:03p
020609 EXE 462128 6-09-02 8:36p
020622-8 EXE 462288 6-22-02 10:28p
020704 EXE 462304 7-04-02 9:42a
020706 EXE 462304 7-06-02 6:40p
020707 EXE 462256 7-07-02 12:52a
020707-2 EXE 462304 7-07-02 6:28p
020718 EXE 462256 7-18-02 9:58a
020730 EXE 462256 7-30-02 9:04p
020812 EXE 462400 8-12-02 9:00p
020822 EXE 462464 8-22-02 9:01p
020825 EXE 462448 8-25-02 3:37p
020901 EXE 462464 9-01-02 5:26p
020903 EXE 462448 9-03-02 10:47p
020904 EXE 462448 9-04-02 12:57a
020920-A EXE 462544 9-20-02 1:08a
020920-B EXE 462592 9-20-02 9:06p
021006 EXE 462560 10-06-02 8:33p
23 File(s) 128401408 bytes free
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