Re: UUID: how to get one

2013-03-11 Thread Monte Goulding
It's worse than that. I've run into a policy in an education setting that will cause any shell call to block. Always use open process instead of shell. -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 12/03/2013, at 2:47 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > In

Re: UUID: how to get one

2013-03-11 Thread Malte Brill
The late Mark Smith wrote a library that works pretty well. I remember to have patched it a few years back and when I wanted to return the patch I learned that Mark no longer is with us. :-( However the library is still to find. And was originally released under an open source license. His libs

Re: UUID: how to get one

2013-03-11 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > > Maybe there is windows VB or shell script with the same functionality, > but I don't know :-) Here is a function that works on OS X, Windows an Linux. https://gist.github.com/trevordevore/5135156 VBScript is used on Windows. You will run

Re: UUID: how to get one

2013-03-10 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Richard, Am 10.03.2013 um 21:36 schrieb R. Hillen : > Hello list, > > some years ago there was a tip to get an UUID: > > _internal call "generate_uuid" > put the result > > is there now a official cmd? nope, still _internal! But on the Mac you can: ... put shell("uuidgen") into tUUID ...