My (perhaps dumb) Question for the Day

Robert M. Warren

I frequently see files posted here with a serial number prefix. Is this typically a number meaningful only to the author/distributor, or is there some common convention being followed?

Gracias 

MJ. Smith

http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/about/index.html

although publishers purchase blocks of ISBN's there is no guaranteed pattern

George Somsel

Robert M. Warren said:

I frequently see files posted here with a serial number prefix. Is this typically a number meaningful only to the author/distributor, or is there some common convention being followed?

Gracias 

Are you perhaps referring to files that a user has zipped and posted?  If so, somehow the system seems to determine the number associated with it.

Paul N

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/313173#Comment_313173

I'd like to think there is a complex pattern that everyone is on on... but no it's assigned to the front of the file by the message board.

Robert M. Warren

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/313175#Comment_313175

Paul Newsome said:

it's assigned to the front of the file by the message board.

Which makes sense, as there is a high probability of duplicate file names from the many contributors and some unique addition would be needed to store the files in the same location.

Thanks, all, for your answers.

Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/315852#Comment_315852

Robert M. Warren said:

Paul Newsome said:

it's assigned to the front of the file by the message board.

Which makes sense, as there is a high probability of duplicate file names from the many contributors and some unique addition would be needed to store the files in the same location.

Thanks, all, for your answers.

 

Typically preappended values are date/time stamps... you might want to see if that is what you are seeing