From:	mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: uname and processor type?
Date:	3 Oct 1997 10:19:08 GMT
Organization:	Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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I (mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl) wrote:
: Would it be possible to let uname detect the processor type in a next
: release?

: I personally don't know how, but it shouldn't be too difficult for
: *real* programmers.

: Right now, the only thing it reports is 'pc' which is of little use.

OK, let me explain why I ask this. It's not that *I* want to know what
processor I have (I already know that :), but people or programs
(config.guess) do. If they use 'uname' they don't want to know it's a
PC (MS-DOS for OS says enough about that), but also what processor
is used.

So maybe the maintainer/DJGPP-porter of uname (shellutils? => Eli? I
can't remember right now) can integrate some extra ID-procedures in
uname, to make it more useful.
-- 
Groeten, Michel.        http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter
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