From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brad Collins Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: UUIDGEN in lisp Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:57:12 +0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076727657 29261 80.91.224.253 (14 Feb 2004 03:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 14 04:00:43 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Arq2s-0001j4-00 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:00:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Arq2j-0008AO-FP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:00:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Arq1q-0007xG-Q6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:59:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Arq1K-0007hw-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:59:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.146.30.109] (helo=mailgw.cscoms.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Arq1J-0007he-Oj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from cscoms.com (mail.cscoms.com [203.146.30.108]) by mailgw.cscoms.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i1E2wxxt046652 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:59:00 +0700 (ICT) Original-Received: from KAME.cscoms.com (dial-41.ras-16.bkk.c.cscoms.com [203.170.147.41]) by cscoms.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i1E2wsiM021520 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:58:58 +0700 (GMT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16840 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16840 As part of a major mode I'm writing, I call uuidgen to automatically insert a UUID in document metadata. This is fine when I'm on a *nix box, but becomes a real pain when using a Windows box. I've had no luck getting rsh working between my windows and linux box. There is no cygwin version of uuidgen (that I can find) and there is a uuidgen.exe made by MS but it's only bundled in some other large package. So I was wondering if anyone knows of a lisp UUID generator that has already been written. I've found a couple of unique ID generators in gnus and message but I don't know if these are producing proper uuids. I think it would be generally helpful to have a generic unique id generator for a number available for any application but I'm not sure if this has already been done or not. Any ideas? b/ -- Brad Collins Chenla Labs Bangkok, Thailand