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Re: RES: Mail subject recipe

2001-03-14 07:36:01
From: Mike Doyle <relyod(_at_)cooperationireland(_dot_)org>

Could you please explain the numbers "2147483647" you have on your recipe
below? If you can point me to any source where I can read about it I
appreciate.

The number  2147483647 is (2^31)-1 or in simpler terms MAXINT for
signed 32 bit integers. This is the largest possible number which
can be stored in a signed integer variable.

An unsigned 32-bit integer can store up to  4294967296

Other "magic" numbers are
[deleted here]

Very good.  But let's not forget to point him to "any source where
[he] . . . can read about it":

        man procmailsc

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