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Subject: Re: OS X (or other OS's): how to get a fully-qualified domain name?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:48:04 -0600
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John Owens wrote:
 > This does bring up the larger point, however, that there might be
 > circumstances where emacs DOES need to know its fully qualified domain
 > name, and there does not seem to be a way to get it, which is
 > unfortunate.

Emacs does try to get the FQDN from the system; see the init_system_name
function in src/sysdep.c.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers