Determining machine architecture and ULTRIX version

[Chuck Karish]

In article <253 at pvi.UUCP> davidk at .com() wrote:
>Are there any reliable methods for determining the architecture of a 
>machine running ULTRIX from a bourne shell script?

>In a similar vein, I would also like to determine the version of ULTRIX 
>that is running, and the version of DECWindows (or UWS) programmatically,
>(bourne shell script).  

The uname() system call returns a structure that contains information
that will be useful to you.  Write a little C program that calls
uname() and prints out the data, or wait until DEC ships the POSIX
1003.2 uname utility.  Uname comes from System V, so a shell script
that calls it is already portable to much of the UNIX world.  

	Chuck Karish		karish at mindcraft.com
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