>Not all networks systesm (i.e., older networks) allow more than 8 characters.
Oh, I see. In this case, your best bet seems to be to get the last 8 characters of sys(2015), or underscore + the last 7 characters if a digit isn't acceptable for the first character.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
