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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- In article <1991Jul30.194609.28887@uunet.uu.net> milt@pe-nelson.com (Mil Ratcliff) writes:
- >SunOS provides the gethostname() call to return the host name for the current
- >machine... Is there a portable way to get a host name ...
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- The very concept of a host name -- a unique readable name for the host --
- is not (fully) portable. No, there is no universal way to get it.
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- [ What about POSIX and networking? -- mod ]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 24, Number 68
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