On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:45:38AM -0500, Brian Smith wrote: > I'm not even sure that I need to worry about this or not, but... > > I'm working on an app that will end up writing out PDB files, and > everything in the format makes sense and is pretty easy to follow except > for one thing... unique IDs of the records. Is there a prescribed > algorithm for generating those? Do I even need to worry about generating > those and can instead just set the unique IDs and unique ID seed to 0? > > Thanks in advance.
You don't need to worry. As explained in the File Format Specification document, you should set the seed to 0 and use 3 NUL bytes in unique IDs present in record headers also. Marco -- ======================================================================== Marco Pantaleoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Padova, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] elastiC language developer http://www.elasticworld.org -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
