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Date: 21 Jul 93 14:56:58 GMT
From: emery@mitre-bedford.arpa  (David Emery)
Subject: Re: gethostname (Was: SunAda question)
Message-ID: <EMERY.93Jul21095658@goldfinger.mitre.org>
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>Frankly, I'm offended!  This completely violates everything that I've
>been taught about Ada functions! The actual parameters of a function
>should not be modified.  A function should only return one value.

The Verdix package "Unix" is what is called a "thin binding", in that
it simply recasts an existing C operation, semantics and all, in Ada
syntax.  

Your better solution is to use the POSIX/Ada binding.  See
"POSIX.System_Name" and "POSIX.Host_Name" functions.

				dave