WHATRU(1)



NAME

     whatru - host identification script


SYNOPSIS

     whatru


DESCRIPTION

     is a shell script that attempts by various means to discover
     what  type  of  machine  it  was  run on and echoes a string
     specific to that type.  The string used is  consistent  with
     the MACHINE types known by the SOI Makefiles.

     The following machine types are currently recognized:

     i386 Intel 80386 (PC) running Sys V

     mips DEC RISC (MIPS R3000) running Ultrix

     NEXT NeXT running BSD/Mach

     sgi  SGI supporting MIPS II compiler (R4000) running Irix

     sgi4 SGI supporting MIPS IV compiler (R8000) running Irix

     sun4 Sun SPARC running SunOS

     vax  DEC VAX running Ultrix


FILES

     /bin/machine, /bin/uname, /usr/local/bin/cpu_type


SEE ALSO

     uname(1), cpu_type(1L)


BUGS

     The types of machines and operating systems  are  constantly
     changing,  and only a few in current use are supported.  The
     meaning of the reported type changes from time  to  time  as
     the local computing environment evolves.

     There is insufficient attention to operating system  differ-
     ences within machine architectures.

     For some machines, depends on the  existence  of  the  local
     binary   /usr/local/bin/cpu_type,  which  extracts  a  magic
     number from a dependable binary file.


AUTHOR

     Rick Bogart


HISTORY

     SOI Version 0.9: 1994-11-09