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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Where is uname?
Date: 20 Jul 1993 18:49:49 GMT
Organization: Montana State University
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References: <1993Jul17.211350.22721@spectrum.xerox.com> <VIXIE.93Jul17194055@gw.home.vix.com>
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In article <VIXIE.93Jul17194055@gw.home.vix.com> vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
>>I can't find uname...
>
>It's not there.  There's one in BSD/386 and one in BSD 4.4 but neither
>one is especially redistributable so there isn't one in NetBSD et al.

Actually, there was a uname implementation donated to NetBSD, so NetBSD
has a uname() call now.


Nate
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