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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