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Get hold of NIC's MAC address???
Name: Roger Date: February 25, 2000 at 04:07:48 Pacific
Comment:
Does anybody know how I could get hold of the MAC address of my NIC. I would like to have some sort of Hardware-set ID for the machines in my network. Preferrably this address could be sent back to me by a function so i can use it to determine file selection in a DOS Batchfile.
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