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From: lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IBMFMT: serial number (also emacs.rc)
Summary: Boot sector format emacs
Keywords: boot sector, format, ibmfmt, serial number emacs
Message-ID: <1108@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 88 04:44:28 GMT
References: <1489@water.waterloo.edu> <4291@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <4291@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
> 
> The original version of IBMFMT mistakenly produced a fixed serial number.
> I later posted a corrected version that generates random serial numbers.
> It IS important that your floppies have distinct serial numbers.  Please

Can someone enlighten us as to why distinct serial numbers are required
for the floppies?   This is quite a surprise to me since you can't
gurantee distinct serial numbers on floppies. Even if the serial number
range is mega-digit, there's always a chance of 2 identical numbers being
generated.  What kind of problems are there if the serial numbers are
not distinct?

BTW, to get uemacs 3.7i to read the startup file, invoke it with:
 emacs @PathnameOfStartUpFile,      eg.  d:\edit\emacs @d:\edit\emacs.rc
(thanks again to all the uEmacians who emailed me)
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