Re: possible overflow?

Peter wrote:
) Your assumption of ASCII is not required since the C language requires
) the characters '0'..'9' be consecutive codings [although it does not
) require the same for 'a'..'z' or 'A'..'Z'.]

I wasn't aware of that, so I stuck with the safer explanation of ASCII,
which fails on 80% of all enterprise systems... Err, I mean, works on
95% of all computers.


SaSW, Willem
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