Subject: Re: We have two options. NetBSD-1.5, or a new alphabet.
To: Brook Milligan <brook@biology.nmsu.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/09/2000 22:33:54
	We need th enext version after 1.4Z to sort after 1.4Z.

	1.4ZA is probably the best option.


		David/absolute

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Brook Milligan wrote:

>    >On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:38:21PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
>    >> We have 7 revs left in this alphabet.  Wow!
> 
>    >Lowercase? Eight-bit characters?
> 
> Isn't the clearest option to use the following sequence (i.e.,
> essentially base 26 "numbers")?
> 
> A, B, C, ... X, Y, Z, AA, AB, AC, ... AZ, BA, BB, BC, ... BZ, ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Brook
>