Erik Huelsmann wrote in a message to all:

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

There is a builtin function to create a unique filename... 
(actually, there are two in C Set) tmpnam & _tempnam. 

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

 EH>  
 EH>  
 EH>   

You can, on the other hand write your own. If you are limited to 8+3
filename, you can do this:
Date&Time&random
22011435.7642

where date is day,month, time is hour, minute..
or
you can calculate the CRC of time or date or sth.... 

 EH> called within the same 100th (which is very well possible
 EH> with P60/P90-systems and even is possible on my DX2-66). 

In that case, you should check as well for the filename (with access
function for example). I think tmpname functions are limited to 25 files or
so... I'm not sure though.

 EH> So, if anyone has an algorithm for this outthere... please.
 EH> CU,

CRC of time in that case would be the most secure way in my opinion. 

\M 
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