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Re: About the System Information command
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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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