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Sun Sep 16 07:52:01 2001


Quoting Guy Soudant (guy@soudant.net):
> Hi Jim,
>  
> There is a file called order.number in the etc directory of your IC
> install. If you change the number there, then you will get custom order
> numbers. I have noticed, however, that you cannot have a mixture of
> characters like the following F1SO0001 (notice the number after the F).
> This does not work. You must have something like FOSO0001 (combination
> of alpha numeric and the numeric or numeric only; not alphanumeric -
> numeric - alpha numeric - numeric). This may be a bug, and may be solved
> in the last release.

Not a bug -- it is the limitation of Perl's magical string increment.
Look in "perldoc perlop" under "Auto-increment and Auto-decrement".

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