David Epstein wrote:

> The case I am contemplating would involve a user creating new
> substacks to hold content.  While I can make sure each substack
> created by my program gets a unique name, if a file created on
> one machine is moved to another machine there is some chance of
> a conflict (reduced but not absolutely eliminated if I went to
> great lengths, like embedding in each substack's name "the
> ticks" at creation time).

See the UUID function in the Dictionary.

--
 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Systems

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