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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Why are C news message-IDs so non-minimalist?
Message-ID: <YRQVP1@b-tech.mi.org>
Date: 4 Dec 89 03:59:17 GMT
References: <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu> <EZRVsR_00WBFQBElwa@andrew.cmu.edu> <5:CS3_@splut.conmicro.com> <1989Dec3.073310.18501@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI
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Here it is if anyone wants a copy.  I believe that there was something
similar posted awhile back but I didn't have a copy.

--- cut here --- mkid.c ----

/*
    Put this in /usr/lib/newsbin/inject and change anne.jones to
    use it to make a message id.
*/

/* string of some valid message id characters */

char	string[] = "!#$%^&*_+|-=~`{}'/?ABCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ1234567890";

#define size (sizeof string - 1)

main()
{
   long	time();

   /* subtract off the time I wrote this and assume that pids never get
      reused in 60 seconds. */

   print_num((time((long *)0) - 627672773) / 60);
   print_num((long)getpid());

   return 0;
}


print_num(num)
long	num;
{
   do {
      (void) printf("%c", string[num % size]);
      num /= size;
   } while (num);

}

-- 
Jon Zeeff    		<zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Branch Technology 	<zeeff@b-tech.mi.org>