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From: rlin@cs.ubc.ca (Robert Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: machine ID for NeXT
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Date: 8 Oct 90 19:46:28 GMT
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Yes, you can type "hostid" and get a string back that is guaranteed
to be unique for the machine. You can also call something like
gethostid() (see man pages).

This can be used for a licensing scheme like the way FrameMaker licenses
nodes on a Sun network.

-Robert Lin <rlin@cs.ubc.ca>