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- /*
- * gethost.c - get the name of the feeder site for bootstrap news
- * copyright 1989 Ronald Florence (ron@mlfarm 7/9/89)
- *
- * The original package got the host name from a compile-time constat.
- * Since many people may not want to re-compile this, we get the name
- * from a file.
- * by David Beckemeyer (david@bdt 8/23/89)
- *
- */
-
- #include <stdio.h>
-
- #define SYSFILE "\\usr\\lib\\news\\sys"
-
- char *feedhost()
- {
- FILE *fp;
- static char host[32];
- char *p;
-
- if ((fp = fopen(SYSFILE, "r")) == 0) {
- printf("cannot open %s\n", SYSFILE);
- exit(1);
- }
- if (!fgets(host, 32, fp)) {
- printf("cannot read %s\n", SYSFILE);
- exit(1);
- }
- fclose(fp);
- for (p = host; *p > ' '; p++)
- ;
- *p = 0;
- return(host);
- }
-