> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Dodsworth [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 2:42 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: linking with dcexl.hpdce.sys
>
>
> I am trying to link dcexl.hpdce.sys in order to make use of
> some of its
> functionality like gethostname(), but the program I am
> linking also contains
> a couple of fopens which the dcexl library has its own
> versions of.  When I
> link the executable I specify xl=dcexl.hpdce.sys, which then
> gets used ahead
> of any functions in xl.pub.sys which has the fopen I want to
> call rather
> than the dce version.  The problem is the executable will run
> with a posix
> shell but it will not function properly from the ci.  I have
> debugged the
> issue and is always returns a null file pointer when ever the fopen is
> called when the program is run from the ci rather than a
> posix shell.  Is
> there a solution to this some type of linkedit option?  or
> will executables
> linked with the dcexl library only function correctly from a
> posix shell?

FWIW, gethostname() exists in -lsocket (aka /usr/lib/libsocket.a and .sl).

I've never had to link anything with dcexl, and so I have no idea about your
fopen problem....

- Mark B.