On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:33:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > > 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.
> Sorry, but there really is no choice at all IMHO.
> We have SetComputerNameA().
> And this nice function might get called by a program that might want to
> check the successful setting of the name upon the next execution by
> means of calling GetComputerNameA.
> And it will stop working if we reinitialize the computer name to the
host
> name every time upon startup.
> The computer name will be set to the host name upon Wine setup,
> so what's the deal ?
> It most likely will never be changed by these functions anyway...
>
> (only if a program really wants to, and then it's nearly always based
on
> user input)
>
> Andreas Mohr
>
OK, let 'em set it if they want to, and check to make sure it's set in
the (justifiably) paranoid manner of windose programs :-)
Lawson
