haugj@pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) (06/24/88)
[ food for the line eater ] [ repeat after me, i'll never talk bad about berkeley again ... ] I am looking for the definitive documentation on the /etc/hosts file. We have an EXCELAN EXOS board and the software which came with it doesn't have gethostbyname, or so it seems, so I've had to write my own and I thought it would be nice to know EXACTLY how ugly the hosts file could be. A BNF grammar would be fantastic, something less well defined will suffice. And if you are in the same boat, I've written (a possibly flawed) gethostent() in case You Too(tm) have this problem. And no, I don't have a set of FM's to R ;-) - John. -- The Beach Bum Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers UUCP: ...!killer!rpp386!jfh jfh@rpp386.uucp :SMAILERS "You are in a twisty little maze of UUCP connections, all alike" -- fortune