Short: Doles out unique ID's. Author: rkr@olib.org Uploader: Aminet Uploader olib org Type: util/rexx Architecture: m68k-amigaos id-server generates unique identifiers for you. It is written as an ARexx command host, and is written in ARexx itself. (REQUIRES files from the (very small) archive, "rkr_rexx.lzh".) Message systems, particularly, need to generate unique identifiers to tag each message. One wishes that no two id's should ever be duplicates. After generating an id unique within a system, you can trivially affix a system-id in order to generate an id that is unique within a network. Because there is (a little) work involved -- and more importantly, because you want ALL id's generated within a system to be mutually unique -- it seems suitable to me that a system-wide resource should generate the ID's. Not being aware of any such tools, I wrote my own as an ARexx command-server. A typical ID might look like this: 112.1.19950430.23358 ...which is easily massaged into an Internet email Message-ID line: Message-Id: <112.1.19950430.23358@olib.org> (Note: "Aminet.Uploader@olib.org" is in one sense exactly the same as "rkr@olib.org", but the Aminet.Uploader "user" mailbox exists so that I can have my mail automatically seperated somewhat as it arrives. olib.org is my Amiga, running AmiTCP/IP.)