Re: lynx-dev Options, V.Links, random (was: patch 6 - UI Pages)

[T.E.Dickey]

> By contrast, for the previous implementation (as used for Unix-like 
> systems, at least): The size of the pool of names is nearly equivalent 
> to "unlimited", for practical purposes.  Additionally, cycling through 
> names in ordered fashion means that there is *zero* chance of generating 
> the same name twice until you have gone through all the pool once. 

Then we could address this concern by not limiting the length of the names
(that's a trait of the random-sequence).  -- otoh I'm not wholly convinced
that problems due to collisions are not already problems that should be
fixed irregardless of the filenaming convention.
  
>    Klaus 

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