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From: calvin@dinkum.wpd.sgi.com (Calvin H. Vu)
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Subject: Re: A fortran routine to call system time and host address
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.220850.13144@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 22:08:50 GMT
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In <1991Jan15.163103.29660@ms.uky.edu> hongde@s.ms.uky.edu (Hongde Luo) writes:


| We try to send a objective fortran file to someone to use. However,	
| we want to limit the time and machine on which the program is to be
| used. For instance, we want this user to have access to the file
| before July 1, 1991 and he can use this only on a certain SGI machine.
| Are there any specific command or utilities in fortran to check
| the clock time and ethernet address? 

	You can write a Fortran-callable [by appending a '_' to the routine
    name] C routine to check for the time and/or system id.  The functions
    to use are sysid() and time() [or some variations of it].

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