Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: more enhancements? Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 90 21:01:07 GMT References: <8017@ogicse.ogi.edu> Sender: news@mhres.mh.nl Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 24 In-reply-to: hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu's message of 15 Mar 90 00:08:48 GMT In article <8017@ogicse.ogi.edu> hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson) writes: > In the interests of portable and efficient scripts, I'd like to > request the addition of a "getwd" call, ... I'll second this. > I'd also like to add my support for a "gethostname" call, and the This also. > ability to create "ctime" style (or a more modern "standard" format, Someone posted a 'ctime.pl' some time ago. Has anyone archived it? Johan Perl hacking on HPUX again ... -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------