Jd> Bear in mind that not all uses of itoa() are for producing strings
Jd> that are  intended for display to human beings.  Some people use
Jd> base  36 for generating filenames, for example.

This interests me.  Would you please post a snippet of code for 
generating filenames using base 36.

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