On 1 November 2012 15:45, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, and also must update the BASETAB and BASETAB2 tables appropriately. > Alternately, you could extend to base 62 by using lower case letters as well. > I.e. 0-9A-Za-z . But most people don't seem to like to distinguish between > upper and lower case. Especially old tyme mainframers.
Or whatever steps in between that don't preserve case. But if lowercase works, then I'd go for base-64 and avoid division... PS If the addresses are far enough apart (because of the size of the block) then encoding the 20 most significant bits should be unique enough (eg 2K blocks in a 2G address space) Rob
