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Article #121Re: Where does "somewhere!..." come from ?
From: Kevin Darcy
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 20:32
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 20:32
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In article <1992Aug6.170943.286@twg.com> "David Herron" <david@twg.com> writes: >.. > >BTW, the `somewhere' name is a fallback kinda thing for when it doesn't >know that the UUCP name is. It has two sources of information: A compiled >in constant, or the above mentioned declaration. Obviously SCO cannot ship >binaries with a compiled-in constant ... I do not know of a programmatic >way of determining the system's UUCP name, sort of opening a pipe to uuname(1). On an AT&T 3B2, the system call "uname" works fine for this purpose. Perhaps other SysVr3-like machines have that syscall as well... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ kevin@cfctech.cfc.com | Kevin Darcy, Unix Systems Administrator ...sharkey!cfctech!kevin | Technical Services (CFC) Voice: (313) 759-7140 | Chrysler Corporation Fax: (313) 758-8173 | 25999 Lawrence Ave, Center Line, MI 48015 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!kevin From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Where does "somewhere!..." come from ? Message-ID: <1992Aug7.203247.19627@cfctech.cfc.com> Date: 7 Aug 92 20:32:47 GMT References: <1992Aug6.170943.286@twg.com> Organization: Chrysler Financial Corp., Southfield, MI Lines: 18