The Sandman
Re: S/N generation in RC
Wed Dec 9 18:54:47 1998


Greetings Joseph,

Between you and LenraV the serial generation process as used by The Registry Crawler has been layed bare for everyone to learn and understand it's inner workings.

To put the record straight about the created 4D key in our system registry...

It's true value type is Binary, you were correct in saying that it could'nt be a Double-Word value because it was too small to hold the User Name & Serial Code. However, the 4D Key does in fact, store both the User Name & Serial code in one..

The Registry Crawler stores the User Name & Serial Code in hex bytes format (It's being stored in a Binary Key remember so only hex bytes are accepted).

At the start of the first 255 bytes allocated to storing data is our User Name.
At the start of the next 255 bytes allocated to storing data is our Serial Code.

The total size of our 4D Binary key is 512 bytes.

Regards

The Sandman