>> As a general rule, implementations for specific languages shouldn't be
 >> mentioned in documents.  I'd avoid this particular comment especially,
 >> since it makes no sense.  (time(NULL) must, by definition, be the same
 >> in any implementation.)

 ac> From the C standard:

 ac> "The time function determines the current calendar time. The
 ac> encoding of the value is unspecified."

 ac> Programmers tend to just convert the value returned to an
 ac> unsigned long and be done with it, unfortunately.

i believe that charles brought that up because not everyone uses C... i
(still) program in turbo pascal 6 and am just now starting to
"play" with delphi 6... other languages include java, php, perl,
etc...

one thing that i found exceedingly funny was that the original creator of
FTS-0009 was thinking of a simple incrementing counter... that is really
all that is necessary... even sendmail uses one... check the code!
>

)\/(ark