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6.1C tcsh man page error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Mar 21 17:39:14 1989
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 17:38:52 EST
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: doc-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The tcsh man page in 6.1C reads:
NEW ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
On startup, tcsh now automatically initializes the environ-
ment variable HOST to the name of the machine that it is
running on. It does this by doing a gethostname(2) system
call, and setting HOST to the result.
Tcsh also initializes the environment variable HOSTTYPE to a
symbolic name for the type of computer that it is running
on.
This is incorrect. The variables are shell variables, not environment
variables, and they are host and hosttype, not HOST and HOSTTYPE.
jik
