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From: "Jack Tanner" <ihok AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: /bin/hostname
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:51:18 -0500
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X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Mar 2003 21:51:18.0455 (UTC) FILETIME=[8193BC70:01C2ED98]

On Cygwin, /bin/hostname is part of sh-utils. On RedHat, it's part of 
net-utils and provides a much richer set of options. I discovered this the 
hard way, when RH8 `/bin/hostname -s` didn't work on cygwin. (On RH8, -s 
stands for short host name, e.g., the "host" of "host.example.com".) Is 
there any chance Cygwin might get a nicer hostname, or is this really 
complicated?

-JT

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