Microsoft GUID's are based on a magic hashing of a date/time stamp and
network card MAC address. If no network card is in the PC then the algorithm
somehow compensates and uses another source of information from the PC to
add uniqueness to the GUID. The process is documented in various books
(Hardcore Visual Basic) and the API's for generating GUID's are available,
but I don't believe the actual algorithm or source code is readily
available.
Mitch Fawcett
Tapn'see Software
(Home of SuperList2)
http://www.tapnsee.com
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve
Austin
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 5:11 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: RE: UUID/GUID
I'd be curious to algorithms for this as well...I'm building them, but only
by generating a date stamp and a random digits for the rest. I'd like to
use the palm unique id as part of it, but I'm still not certain which palms
have this id and which ones don't.
Steve
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Yourch
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:39 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: UUID/GUID
Hi,
Does anyone have any Palm source code that will generate a Microsoft style
UUID (i.e. GUID)?
Regards,
Chris
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