Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 11:41:14 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 23 May 1999, Alain Magloire wrote:

> > >    What is "getconf"?
> > 
> > It's a Linux tool that return system-configuration details.
> 
> Not exactly, it's a well defined POSIX.1 program.

Interesting, I didn't know that.

Does any OS besides Linux supply it?

> But I did code a very quick, proof of concept getconf, it uses
> confstr() to get the limits and system-coonfiguration details
> ftp://mccoy.ee.mcgill.ca/pub/alain/misc/getconf.tar.gz

I will look into this.  Perhaps we could add a not-so-trivial script
to a future DJGPP release.