Lee Aroner wrote to Jonathan De Boyne Pollar on 11-16-1999

LA>    Note: All of the "G:\Desktop" entries are followed by 246
LA> nulls. 
LA>    Add the 10 bytes of the string that preceeds those 246 nulls and 
LA>    you get 256 bytes, or 16 paragraphs.

Which just happens to be the value of _MAXPATH in the toolkit headers,
for one thing.

In another msg. you refer to the X, 1, 2, 3 sequences.  If you make
several archives you will find that the 1 -3 entries appear to be a
used to refer to 3 'buckets' where a new archive replaces the oldest
(3) one and becomes 1 while the remaining 'buckets' (1 and 2) are
incremented.  Sort of a first-in/first-out stack of 3.  Note: I may be
bass-ackwards on the order.  I say 1 is the newest but it may really be
3; I haven't messed with this in a LONG time.
 
Will Honea 
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