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ASCII.
For example, the various versions of the <em>family driver</em>
will be identified by <code>NCSAfami</code>, <code>NCSAfam0</code>,
- <code>NCSAfam1</code>, etc. Identification for user-defined drivers
+ <code>NCSAfam1</code>, etc.
+ (<code>NCSAfami</code> is simply <code>NCSAfamily</code> truncated
+ to eight characters. Subsequent identifiers will be created by
+ substituting sequential numerical values for the final character,
+ starting with zero.)
+ <p>
+ Identification for user-defined drivers
is arbitrary but should be unique.</td>
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