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 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode