Re: R utilities, addresses, etc.

[Brent () GreatCircle COM (Brent Chapman)]

At 01:32 10/20/94 -0700, Charles Howes wrote:
> On a pretty-close-to-related issue, why can't the r utitiles handle ip
> addresses?  Seems to be a glaring omission.

I've actually long wondered why gethostbyname(), if passed an IP address
as a "hostname", doesn't simply return the host struct for that IP address.
Seems like that would trivially give all programs that accept hostnames,
which essentially all call gethostbyname() to get the address, the ability
to accept raw addresses as well.


-Brent

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