Hello Erik!

Replying to a message of Erik Huelsmann to all:

 EH> Hello All!

 EH> Is there anyone out there who has a routine to generate completely
 EH> unique filenames??

 EH> I had an idea to do so, but it doesn't fit into the 8.3 naming
 EH> convention!

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 EH> these three make a total of 6 bytes. which is 12 digits coded in hex,
 EH> which is again one digit too much for  8.3 . The one hex-digit is
 EH> solveable, but I wanted to put in an extra code/number for the case

But why stop with F when you have 26 chars and 10 numbers so you can use
base 36 to name your file. In base 36 you only need 10 digits. In base 36
and with 11 digits you can represent 56 bits (7 bytes).

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