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Date: 21 Jul 93 13:25:01 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.ps
u.edu!icf.hrb.com!jtt@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Jack Taylor)
Subject: RE: SunAda question
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>        function gethostname(name: address; namelen: integer)
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                return status_code;
>
>As defined this function seems very useless.  It will only tell you whether
>or not the call to gethostname was successful.  It will not tell you,
>despite its name, what the hostname is.


Am I missing something here? Isn't this address a pointer to a UNIX string
containing the hostname?