On Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2010 Alex Elder wrote: > PS Two more observations: > - There is really no need for the characters to be truly random. > Making the generated name unique and different from the > original is sufficient. So (with the exception of the last > five bytes) we can select the characters however we like. > They could be a sequential series of names, for example, > rather than computing a random value for each. I was thinking the same when reading your description. Why not simply "number" the file names from 1 to whatever count of files/dirs there is within that dir? -- mit freundlichen Grüssen, Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc it-management Internet Services http://proteger.at [gesprochen: Prot-e-schee] Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 ****** Aktuelles Radiointerview! ****** http://www.it-podcast.at/aktuelle-sendung.html // Wir haben im Moment zwei Häuser zu verkaufen: // http://zmi.at/langegg/ // http://zmi.at/haus2009/