<HTML> <!-- $Id$ --> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO 8859-1"> <META http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <META name="author" lang="en" content="Michiel Broek"> <META name="copyright" lang="en" content="Copyright Michiel Broek"> <META name="description" lang="en" content="MBSE BBS Manual"> <META name="keywords" lang="en" content="MBSE BBS, MBSE, BBS, manual, fido, fidonet, gateway, tosser, mail, tic, mailer"> <TITLE>MBSE BBS Programs - mbseq - Sequence number creator.</TITLE> <LINK rel=stylesheet HREF="../manual.css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE> <h5>Last update 31-Jan-2001</h5> <P> <P> <H1>mbseq - Sequence number creator</H1> <P> <H3>Synopsis.</H3> <P> <code><strong>mbseq</strong></code> <P> <P> <H3>Description.</H3> <P> <strong>mbseq</strong> writes a eight character hexadecimal unique sequence number to the stdout. This number is received from <strong>mbsed</strong> which keeps track of the generated sequence numbers. This written number can be used in shell scripts to create unique filenames for Fidonet .pkt files, for example: <P> <code> cp temp.pkt `mbseq`.pkt </code> <P> <P> <H3>Bugs.</H3> <P> Nah, it's only 50 lines code, what could go wrong? <P> <A HREF="index.htm"><IMG SRC="../images/larrow.gif" ALT="Index" Border="0">Back to index</A> <A HREF="../index.htm"><IMG SRC="../images/b_arrow.gif" ALT="Main" Border="0">Back to Main index</A> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>