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From: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: generating code to run multiple targets
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Date: 20 Apr 89 22:51:54 GMT
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.>>From the SunOS manpage MACHID(1):
.>>  sun, iapx286, i386, m68k, pdp11, sparc, u3b, u3b2, u3b5, u3b15, vax
.>>  The list of processors implies that this is not a Sun-ism, but comes
.>>with standard BSD 4.x.  What have I been missing from this discussion???

.>I posted a "machine" shell script last year which checks for a whole bunch of
.>machines, it was always the One Right UNIXy thing to have *one* command
.>	machine		# write the processor type to stdout
.>so that one would simply say
.>	case `machine` of ...

But this mechanism allows only one machine type.
On a Sun-3, for example, I would expect both 'sun' and 'm68k' to be true.

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