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From: hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: more enhancements?
Message-ID: <8017@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 00:08:48 GMT
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In the interests of portable and efficient scripts, I'd like to
request the addition of a "getwd" call, which I have often found
myself wanting.  After all, we've already got mkdir/rmdir -- I see
these in the same class of operations, which can be emulated if
the underlying OS doesn't provide a system call.

I'd also like to add my support for a "gethostname" call, and the
ability to create "ctime" style (or a more modern "standard" format,
if one exists) timestamps for human readers would also be useful.
The latter could be done by a subroutine, but I find it distasteful
to have to wield a process to get any of the above information.

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