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Miles Bader wrote:
> nobrowser@gmail.com writes:
> > ${hostname}_${emacs_pid}_${timestamp}.${suffix}, but how to portably
> > get the hostname?  mail-host-name can't be used because the very point
> > is to distinguish between distinct host at the same site.
>
> (system-name)
> 

Thanks.  One would think "apropos host" would work, but nooooooo ...