From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: serialdate to HEX
Date: 30 Nov 2002 12:36:19 GMT
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Michelle Konzack <dos DOT mailinglists AT freenet DOT de> wrote:

> But the serialdate under Linux is to large... in Decimal. 

It might help if you could explain what you mean by "serialdate".

To store just the date, a good compromise might be to just store it in
decimal: 20021130 would be 2002, November 30th, i.e. today.  

> Now I am Looking for a function to convert the serialdate to 
> HEX that it fit into the 8.3 names. 

Hex isn't a very useful format if you want to reduce the number of
letters needed --- it only stores 4 bits per character, so it wastes
about 50 percent of the available 8 bits.

> Can anyone help me ? 

> + reverse function please. 

> Thanks 
> Michelle 

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