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From: kdg@nirvo.uucp (Kurt Gollhardt)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews and long message-ids
Summary: pid in hex for message-ids
Keywords: hex message id
Message-ID: <24C90FF9.5AB3@nirvo.uucp>
Date: 23 Jul 89 00:23:20 GMT
References: <614318400.11519@telly.on.ca> <249FB1D6.12100@ateng.com>
Reply-To: kdg@nirvo.UUCP (Kurt Gollhardt)
Organization: Nirvonics, Inc. - Plainfield, NJ
Lines: 51

In <249FB1D6.12100@ateng.com>, chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) goes
evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) once step better, encoding message-id
dates in hex instead of decimal.

Chip's patch, while very handy, claims to do more than it actually does:

>+ # date and pid in base 36 to make them shorter

Contrary to what this comment says, the pid is still in decimal.  I'll add
my contribution by taking it that extra little bit further.  Here's a diff
(on top of Chip's <249FB1D6.12100@ateng.com> diff) which really does put the
pid in hex:


*** relay/sh/anne.jones.old Sat 07/22/89 19:27:24
--- relay/sh/anne.jones Sat 07/22/89 19:58:44
***************
*** 102,107
  `"				# for defdate, defmsgid
  # date and pid in base 36 to make them shorter
  gdat=`(echo 16o; getdate now; echo p) | dc`
  # name of organization
  case "$ORGANIZATION" in
  "")	deforg="`sed 1q $NEWSCTL/organi[sz]ation`" ;;	# look in a file

--- 102,108 -----
  `"				# for defdate, defmsgid
  # date and pid in base 36 to make them shorter
  gdat=`(echo 16o; getdate now; echo p) | dc`
+ pid=`(echo 16o; echo $$; echo p) | dc`
  # name of organization
  case "$ORGANIZATION" in
  "")	deforg="`sed 1q $NEWSCTL/organi[sz]ation`" ;;	# look in a file
***************
*** 120,123
  defpath="$badsites$USER" \
  deffrom="$FROM" deforg="$deforg" \
  defdate="` set $date; echo $1, $3 $2 \` echo $6 | sed 's/^..//' \` $4 $5`" \
! defmsgid="`echo \<$gdat.$$@$host\>`" -

--- 121,124 -----
  defpath="$badsites$USER" \
  deffrom="$FROM" deforg="$deforg" \
  defdate="` set $date; echo $1, $3 $2 \` echo $6 | sed 's/^..//' \` $4 $5`" \
! defmsgid="<$gdat.$pid@$host>" -

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