On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 05:20:53PM -0800, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Well, just what I said:
> > > E.g. query the host name.
> > > I just saw before that the registry automatically queries the host
name
> > > and saves it (upon every startup !).
> >
> > Well, yes, that's exactly the right thing to do. Were you suggesting
> > to get the host name once and save it in the registry forever? That
> > would be pretty broken IMO.
> Exactly.
> Just as on Windows.
> You know that little part where Windows setup asks for the computer
name ?
> That's where it gets stored *once*.
> And as we have SetComputerNameA, we should store it once, too, I think.
Please, no. Wine is an implementation of the windose API, Wine is not
windose. Wine is better.
>
> Or maybe not ?
> What do you think ?
>
> Well, at least SetComputerNameA has to store it in the registry, too
> (it doesn't).
> And GetComputerNameA has to retrieve the registry value, not call
> gethostname().
>
> Andreas Mohr
>
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
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