Re: [Orgmode] Question to windows users

2008-12-10 Thread 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 consider

Re: [Orgmode] Question to windows users

2008-12-10 Thread 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> Hi Windows users, >>> >>> is the comm

Re: [Orgmode] Question to windows users

2008-12-10 Thread Ian Barton
Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 T

RE: [Orgmode] Question to windows users

2008-12-10 Thread Jonathan Arkell
bject: [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 T

Re: [Orgmode] Question to windows users

2008-12-10 Thread 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

Re: [Orgmode] Question to windows users

2008-12-10 Thread 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

Re: [Orgmode] Question to windows users

2008-12-10 Thread 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'

Re: [Orgmode] Question to windows users

2008-12-10 Thread 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 thi

[Orgmode] Question to windows users

2008-12-10 Thread 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 __