On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> At 03:16 PM 11/29/2000 -0800, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> >+# VMS returns "LOCALHOST" under tcp/ip services V4.1 ECO 2, possibly others
>
> Not needed with Multinet 4.2 but shouldn't hurt:
>
> $ perl -"MNet::hostent" -e "$h = gethost('localhost'); print $h->name;"
> localhost
Thanks (I wonder if it is actually DECC version dependent?).
> Do we need to do anything special to skip this test on a Perl built without
> socket support?
Yes I think that maybe we should, but I hadn't looked into that (I guess I
simply assumed that whatever test was relevant was already there).
Peter Prymmer
