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- use Sys::Hostname;
- $host = hostname;</PRE>
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- <P>Attempts several methods of getting the system hostname and
- then caches the result. It tries the first available of the C
- library's gethostname(), <CODE>`$Config{aphostname}`</CODE>, uname(2),
- <A HREF="../../lib/Pod/perlfunc.html#item_syscall"><CODE>syscall(SYS_gethostname)</CODE></A>, <CODE>`hostname`</CODE>, <CODE>`uname -n`</CODE>,
- and the file <EM>/com/host</EM>. If all that fails it <CODE>croak</CODE>s.</P>
- <P>All NULs, returns, and newlines are removed from the result.</P>
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- <P>David Sundstrom <<EM><A HREF="mailto:sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com">sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com</A></EM>></P>
- <P>Texas Instruments</P>
- <P>XS code added by Greg Bacon <<EM><A HREF="mailto:gbacon@cs.uah.edu">gbacon@cs.uah.edu</A></EM>></P>
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