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From: baos@caip.rutgers.edu (Bancroft Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: What is hostid and gethostid() equivalent?
Message-ID: <Oct.4.18.31.36.1990.3807@caip.rutgers.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 22:31:38 GMT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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From a C program, I need to find out the unique host identifier 
of the VAX system that VMS is running on.  On Unix I would use
the gethostid() function, but I am not having luck finding a similar
function on VAX/VMS.  Does anyone know what the equivalent VAX/VMS
function is?

On Unix I can issue the hostid command which will print out the
unique host identifier, what is the equivalent on VMS?

Bancroft Scott