Maybe you could get an ethernet MAC address or other seed at hotsync time,
then base all further GUIDs from that. Or maybe you could just let windows
generate a GUID for you during hotsync--depending on you app.
At 09:43 AM 5/18/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Mitch_Fawcett wrote in message <11915@palm-dev-forum>...
> >
> >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.
>
>A hash of the timestamp & user name/id might work for these purposes.
>
>--
>-Richard M. Hartman
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
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