From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Sebold Subject: Re: Question to windows users Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:33:15 -0600 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LASw8-0004gh-95 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:33:24 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LASw6-0004f7-RR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:33:23 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53366 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LASw6-0004ez-Ij for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:33:22 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f13.google.com ([209.85.219.13]:51546) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LASw5-0004jt-Se for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:33:22 -0500 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so931914ewy.18 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:33:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Carsten Dominik's message of "Wed\, 10 Dec 2008 17\:12\:17 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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