From: dean.earley@icode.co.uk   
      
   Antony Clements wrote:   
   > stream1 is a pseudorandom string that can containing every character   
   >  available within the ansi standard with an undefined length. stream2   
   > has a defined length of 512 bits but can still contain any   
   > combination of characters within the full ansi standard. that is   
   > characters with an ascii code of 0 to 255. this means that var1 and   
   > var2 must hold a maximum number of 255255255255.   
      
   So you want ascii value string concatenation rather than just the   
   decimal value of the 4 byte string?   
      
   If this really is the case (I don't believe it is) then use the strconv   
   code I gave you and join the byte array items together in a string and   
   convert the result to a number rather than copymemory into a long.   
      
   > no data type that i know of will ever hold such a large number except   
   > maybe a type def variable. but i wouldnt know where to begin writing   
   > one to hold such a large number.   
      
   The currency data type will   
      
   > i don't think converting from unicode to ansi will have any positive   
   > effect on the rest of the code.   
      
   Yes it will, it will give you the real ascii values in a byte array   
   rather than utf16 unicode in a byte array.   
      
   You seem to be missing the point by a very long way here.   
      
   What EXACTLY do you have as input, what do you expect the intermediary   
   and final values to be?   
      
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   Dean Earley (dean.earley@icode.co.uk)   
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