Re: About the System Information command
Re: About the System Information command
- Subject: Re: About the System Information command
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:38:52 -0400
"Michael Gmail" wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> Whether or not this matters to the OP, or others, the ComputerName and the
>> LocalHostName may not be "equal" strings, and that may affect the desired
>> display, with respect to character case.
>>
>> 'hostname' returns the lower-cased version of what I entered as the Computer
>> Name.
>
> FWIW, I get the computer name back in title case, just as it was
> entered.
That's just what I said. (Read the last line of the quote you clipped.)
'computer name' comes back as it was entered, case intact.
'hostname' is a lowercase version of that.
This applied to, IIRC, the use of the shell script to retrieve the
'hostname', when the OP wanted to get at the 'Comptuer Name'.
--
Gary
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