>
> Ann,
>
> > > I believe Kylix and Delphi have functions to generate
> > > GUIDs. So I'll be using my dev tool library to
> > > generate the GUIDs so they should be unique across
> > > systems. That should make it cross-platform capable.
> > > :-)
> >
> > And your Solaris, HP, and AIX systems?
>
> I can't be 100% certain but I believe that the recent updates to these
> platforms all have GUID/UUID functions which generate
> appropriate/equivalent values.
>
> MS did invent GUIDs they just 'renamed' them from *nix UUIDs.
>

Coming from MS, it's normal... They do that s* all the time...