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[manpage_begin uuid n 1.0.1]
[moddesc {uuid}]
[copyright {2004, Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>}]
[titledesc {UUID generation and comparison}]
[require Tcl 8.2]
[require uuid [opt 1.0.1]]
[description]
[para]

This package provides a generator of universally unique identifiers
(UUID) also known as globally unique identifiers (GUID). This
implementation follows the draft specification from (1) although this
is actually an expired draft document.

[section {COMMANDS}]

[list_begin definitions]

[call [cmd "::uuid::uuid generate"]]

Creates a type 4 uuid by MD5 hashing a number of bits of variant data
including the time and hostname.
Returns the string representation of the new uuid.

[call [cmd "::uuid::uuid equal"] [arg "id1"] [arg "id2"]]

Compares two uuids and returns true if both arguments are the same uuid.

[list_end]

[section {EXAMPLES}]

[example {
% uuid::uuid generate
b12dc22c-5c36-41d2-57da-e29d0ef5839c
}]

[section {REFERENCES}]

[list_begin enum]

[enum]
    Paul J. Leach, "UUIDs and GUIDs", February 1998.
    ([uri http://www.opengroup.org/dce/info/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt])

[list_end]

[keywords UUID GUID]
[manpage_end]