At 04:29 PM 8/14/98 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>ph10@??? said:
>} It seems that on some platforms at least, gethostbyaddr() has been
>} fixed to do the right thing. This surely is the way to go. There must
>} be many programs out there that use gethostbyaddr().
>There are many SunOs 4.1.x systems out there. They have been pretty much
>unsupported by sun since 1995. gethostbyaddr() is not going to be fixed
>as standard for a while yet.
since sun will almost certainly not certify SunOS 4.1.x for year 2000, the
population will probably decline a bit over the next year and a half, but
indeed, some may soldier on after that.
richard
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