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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: what should an arch command return on an indigo?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.165831.11287@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 16:58:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.215158.12838@news.arc.nasa.gov>, lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
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- - It is silly that there is no standard way to get an architecture string.
- -
- - If ARCH becomes a standard environment variable, we still need a standard
- - for what the string returns. I like names which have two pieces concatenated,
- - so that I can pick it apart again if necessary. "sun" "3" or "4", "sgi" "4d",
- - "dec" "vax" or "mips" or "alpha? or perhaps (shorter=better) axp?" ...
-
- I quite agree that there is a need for a standard, but have dreaded the
- moment when there is one, because if you let real standards people loose
- on the problem you get "meaningful strings" as standard architecture
- values, such as:
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- Silicon_Graphics_Incorporated_Irix_4_Version_0_Level_5_Bugfix_F
-
- which would then have to be integrated into the NLS scheme of things,
- so the same running in France would be:
-
- ??????????????????
-
- Did you notice that there is no real standard for values of the LANG variable ?
- There is an x/open recommendation which gives something like En_US for
- American English, but does not specify in which language these should be
- phrased. Thus if I set
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- LANG=Tm_EU # (for Tex-Mex - Estados Unidos)
-
- then I would expect the test for American English to be:
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- if test In_EU = $LANG # (for Ingles - Estados Unidos)
-
- and the whole confusion would reappear after another turn on the handle ...
-
- :-) :-| :-( Thomas
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