Question to windows users

Question to windows users

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Windows users,

is the command uuidgen usually available under windows?  I am  
considering
to make this the default for ID generation because it works on the Mac
and under GNU/Linux.  But I would like to have a default that works on
all systems....

Thanks.

- Carsten

Re: Question to windows users

[David A. Gershman]

Hmm, I'm not sure what you're asking, but "M-x uuidgen" fails as does
"uuidgen" at the windows command prompt.  I'm running XP with Org 6.12a.

How should this command be executed?

> Hi Windows users,
> 
> is the command uuidgen usually available under windows?  I am  
> considering
> to make this the default for ID generation because it works on the Mac
> and under GNU/Linux.  But I would like to have a default that works on
> all systems....
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
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Re: Question to windows users

[Charles Sebold]

On 10 Dec 2008, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> is the command uuidgen usually available under windows?  I am
> considering to make this the default for ID generation because it
> works on the Mac and under GNU/Linux.  But I would like to have a
> default that works on all systems....

No, it's not.  It's available in Cygwin, though (not that I would
require that of Windows users).

Could that command's functionality be replicated in Emacs Lisp?
-- 
Charles Sebold                                    10th of December, 2008
 GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) | Gnus v5.11 | org-mode 6.14
 

Re: Question to windows users

[Charles Sebold]

On 10 Dec 2008, Charles Sebold wrote:

> No, it's not.  It's available in Cygwin, though (not that I would
> require that of Windows users).

Actually, it does come with some of the SDKs for .NET, I just
discovered.  But still, one can't assume its existence on a Windows
machine.
-- 
Charles Sebold                                    10th of December, 2008
 GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) | Gnus v5.11 | org-mode 6.14
 

Re: Question to windows users

[Sebastian Rose]

Hi Carsten,


it is the sad truth: windows has nothing realy - just enough to install
software packages on top of it. No tools at all.

I use WindowsXP in virtulaBox. It's quite a naked install and has no
`uuidgen[.exe|.bat]'.




Regards,

   Sebastian



Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Windows users,
>
> is the command uuidgen usually available under windows?  I am considering
> to make this the default for ID generation because it works on the Mac
> and under GNU/Linux.  But I would like to have a default that works on
> all systems....
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
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RE: Question to windows users

[Jonathan Arkell]

You could see if uuidgen is available, and if not, fallback to an online uuid generator:
http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen

Sending a post request to that URL shouldn't be too hard. And you can extract the UUID from the first <h3> element on the page.

I would separate the code responsible for extraction for retrieval, that way if the page format, url, or post vars change, it will be easy to update.

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Subject: [Orgmode] Question to windows users

Hi Windows users,

is the command uuidgen usually available under windows?  I am  
considering
to make this the default for ID generation because it works on the Mac
and under GNU/Linux.  But I would like to have a default that works on
all systems....

Thanks.

- Carsten


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Re: Question to windows users

[Ian Barton]

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>> Hi Windows users,
>>
>> is the command uuidgen usually available under windows?  I am considering
>> to make this the default for ID generation because it works on the Mac
>> and under GNU/Linux.  But I would like to have a default that works on
>> all systems....
>>
There is a windows API call to generate GUID's, which are unique and I 
assume are the same as uuids. I used to know what this was, but I have 
forgotten now:) I don't know if emacs lisp can call the windows API, but 
somewhere I should have a small command line app that enerates GUIDs and 
outputs them to stdout.

Ian.

Re: Question to windows users

[Oliver Charles]

I think Carsten is looking for something that ships on all Windows
machines, as opposed to requiring users to install a separate tool.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> wrote:
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Hi Windows users,
>>>
>>> is the command uuidgen usually available under windows?  I am considering
>>> to make this the default for ID generation because it works on the Mac
>>> and under GNU/Linux.  But I would like to have a default that works on
>>> all systems....
>>>
> There is a windows API call to generate GUID's, which are unique and I
> assume are the same as uuids. I used to know what this was, but I have
> forgotten now:) I don't know if emacs lisp can call the windows API, but
> somewhere I should have a small command line app that enerates GUIDs and
> outputs them to stdout.
>
> Ian.
>
>
>
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Re: Question to windows users

[Carsten Dominik]

Thanks for all replies,  I will be using uuidgen only on systems which  
have it and fall back to a different implementation in Lisp if not.

- Carsten

On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> Hi Windows users,
>
> is the command uuidgen usually available under windows?  I am  
> considering
> to make this the default for ID generation because it works on the Mac
> and under GNU/Linux.  But I would like to have a default that works on
> all systems....
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
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