Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: more enhancements? Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 90 21:33:31 GMT References: <8017@ogicse.ogi.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 21 In-reply-to: jv@mh.nl's message of 15 Mar 90 21:01:07 GMT In article jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes: | 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. And on System V systems this would use getcwd..... | > I'd also like to add my support for a "gethostname" call, and the | | This also. And if no gethostname, revert to uname..... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so