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   Hello mark!   
      
   Monday July 29 2019 00:21, you wrote to all:   
      
   I am now really confused - I use 3.5.0 compiled on a X64 system and it    
   produces   
   8 char sequence numbers.   
      
      
    >  On 2019 Jul 28 14:14:20, I wrote to you:   
      
    ml>> has anyone else noticed that makenl is generating 10 character   
    ml>> serial numbers?   
      
    > the problem is here... specifically, %08lx does not set the maximum   
    > length... only the minimum...   
      
    >     fprintf(MailFILE, "\x01MSGID: %d:%d/%d %08lx\r\n",   
    > MyAddress[A_ZONE],   
    >             MyAddress[A_NET], MyAddress[A_NODE], GetSequence());   
      
    > something like this should work but i'm not a C coder and haven't   
    > tried to actually compile something to test this with...   
      
    >     char* serialnum = printf("%08lx", GetSequence());   
    >     if (strlen(serialnum) > 8)   
    >     {   
    >       serialnum = serialnum + strlen(serialnum) - 8;   
    >     }   
    >     fprintf(MailFILE, "\x01MSGID: %d:%d/%d %s\r\n", MyAddress[A_ZONE],   
    >             MyAddress[A_NET], MyAddress[A_NODE], serialnum);   
      
      
    > )\/(ark   
      
    > Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this   
    > would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines   
    > to enslave them.   
    > ... Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread.   
      
      
   Vince   
      
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