From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: serialdate to HEX
Date: 5 Dec 2002 13:16:55 GMT
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Michelle Konzack <dos DOT mailinglists AT freenet DOT de> wrote:

[... please note this is all still in the DJGPP mailing list ---
posting here in German is accepted, but not recommended...]

> Hallo Hans Bernhard, 

> Am 12:36 30/11/02 GMT hat Hans-Bernhard Broeker geschrieben:

>>> But the serialdate under Linux is to large... in Decimal. 
>>
>>It might help if you could explain what you mean by "serialdate".

> Naja, das serielle Datum ist eben fortlaufend ab dem 1.1.1970 
> in sekunden...

E.g. just a plain time_t. Fine.

> Bei Dos-Kompatiblen 'maildir' dachte ich eben an 5e86d29a.000

For this particular case, just printing out time_t's as unsigned 32bit
integers in hex, i.e.

	sprintf(filename, "%08.8x.%03.3x", (unsigned int) time_t, serial)

should do it.  time_t is 32 bits in DJGPP and most current Unix
systems, so the hex representation fits exactly into 8 hex digits.
-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.