|> Errr, could you hash in the user name as well so that ... If this just an exercise in generating a unique number, then that reminds of me of longstanding discussions culminating in such things as: |> Network Working Group Paul J. Leach, Microsoft |> INTERNET-DRAFT Rich Salz, Certco |> <draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt> |> Category: Standards Track |> Expires August 4, 1998 February 4, 1998 |> |> |> UUIDs and GUIDs |> |> |> ABSTRACT |> |> This specification defines the format of UUIDs (Universally Unique |> IDentifier), also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifier). A UUID |> is 128 bits long, and if generated according to the one of the |> mechanisms in this document, is either guaranteed to be different |> from all other UUIDs/GUIDs generated until 3400 A.D. or extremely |> likely to be different (depending on the mechanism chosen). UUIDs |> were originally used in the Network Computing System (NCS) [1] and |> later in the Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Computing |> Environment [2]. ======================================================================= I won't rest till it's the best ... Software Production Engineer Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com; pj@usa.net) 3x1373 http://sam.engr.sgi.com/pj