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From: alan@shodha.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Determining machine architecture and ULTRIX version
Summary: The missing /bin/machine on VAX systems.
Message-ID: <459@shodha.dec.com>
Date: 24 Oct 89 22:08:41 GMT
References: <253@pvi.UUCP> <2785@decuac.DEC.COM> <435@unmvax.unm.edu>
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In article <435@unmvax.unm.edu>, collins@grumpy.cs.unm.edu (Bill Collins) writes:
> In article <2785@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com writes:
> >You can use the command "machine".
> >
> >Returns "mips" or "vax".
> >
> 
> Ok, I run machine on a DECstation and get:
> mips
> This is, I guess, another way of saying decstaion.
> 
> Now, on a vax it gives:
> machine:  Command not found.

	/bin/machine for the VAX isn't there in V3.0 or V3.1.  If
	you want to create one use:

	#!/bin/sh
	echo vax
	exit 0

	It's safest to use something like (for csh):

	set machine = "vax"
	if ( -x /bin/machine ) then
		set machine = `/bin/machine`
	endif

> 				Bill
> 				collins@turing.cs.unm.edu
-- 
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com