Re: [MacPerl] News postings and suchlike

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 09:17 -0800 on 98/03/27, aq@snow.btinternet.com wrote:
> However, having briefly looked at ordinary Perl scripts, they seem to use a
>lot of unix-based things, such as getting the hostname using
>$hostname=`/etc/hostname` and suchlike, which doesn't work on a Mac. :-)


actually, Matthias has implemented `hostname` (note there is no /etc path on
that, just `hostname`) which will return the hostname if MacTCP is running.

(What happens if MacTCP isn't running? The hostname is still stored in the
Filesharing preferences.)

Vicki

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