On 25 Jan 2006, at 13:56, Andy Armstrong wrote: > Is your numeric id allowed to be longer than 32 bits? If not the > first eight characters will do fine - you only have a 32 bit > numberspace to use anyway. If not what (if any) length constraints > does the numeric id have? Or - if it's a unixish system - what about the inode? -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net