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From David Wheeler
Subject Re: GUIDs
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Msg-id 407F3803-16F5-11D8-9545-0003931A964A@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: GUIDs  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
Responses Re: GUIDs  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 12:04  AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> Couldn't you use numeric? That should be fairly portable.

Not really. The GUID is 128 bits, which doesn't work so well on 32-bit
systems.

Regards,

David

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