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On Thursday, in article <817773091snz@keris.demon.co.uk>
     chris@keris.demon.co.uk "Chris Croughton" wrote:

CC> >Someone could write a small test program, using nicename.c, to
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CC> Well, I just wrote that program, and with the aid of a couple of
CC> programs (sort and a couple of command-line awk scripts) ran it on the
CC> active list (as of yesterday) and got some stats:
CC> 
CC> # newsgroups:   13956
CC> # duplications:  2128 (that's duplicate names your code generates)
CC> max. dupl.:        24 (max. same name generated)

What a star!  Thanks Chris!

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CC> <g>.  So in the worst case, your code would need to generate 24 unique
CC> names - I think your code just replaces the last character with a digit,
CC> which won't be enough.

Good point.

CC> One suggestion could be to replace the underscore with a digit as well,
CC> or hyphen (there aren't many other characters legal in DOS filenames -
CC> quote, hash, bang?)...

How about (since this will never happen in practice anyway, well,
hardly ever <g>) just working backwards, which, with less than
99 clashes means just a 2nd digit?

However, some names are less than 8 chars.  I wonder if extending
such names would be worthwhile?

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CC> If you're interested, the awk script I used (on a sorted file with each
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A succint star, too.  Good stuff, this Awk thingie.

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John Washington