Platform-independent GUID creation?

[Jeff Koftinoff]

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message news:<ZdKU7.34158$pc4.4356 at atlpnn01.usenetserver.com>...
> Whatever. I'll settle for a Unix "create GUID" routine and one for the Mac
> (I would assume for these purposes that OSX shold be treated like some
> flavor of U*ix?). These could be included along with the win32 CreateGuid()
> and a platform choice to give something *reasonably* portable.
> 
> regards
>  Steve

The problem of course with creating a GUID this way is that it
REQUIRES the computer to have an ethernet adapter.

I got bitten by this one before when some clients only had modems, and
my app needed to create a GUID on their computer.

--jeff