> Well, with both upper and lower case combinations, there's 52x52x52x52 > combinations...or 7,311,616 combinations. Of these, Palm has reserved > all lower-case only creators, so 26x26x26x26, or 456,976. > > I'm assuming we're using only letters here and no punctuation, though I > understand one could use symbols too? > > At any rate, there's a *lot* of symbols. By the time this is a problem, > I likely won't be programming on the Palm Platform any more...;^)
you forgot to include numbers. and you can also use symbols like @ (i think you can use almost any symbol within the ascii range). but let away the symbols, only with the additional numbers 0-9 the available creator ids are more than 14 mil. markus dresch (www.palmside.com) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
