# new builtin request

Bill Drury (bild@io.com)
Mon, 11 Sep 1995 11:52:36 PDT

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    On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Seth I. Rich wrote:

    > So I'm thinking about a new builtin to give some details about the specific
    > instance of the server/database which is running.  The name I'm proposing
    > here sucks, but I'm thinking of something like:
    >
    >   sys_info()
    >     => {hostname, port, database, checkpoint-database}
    >   If called with nonwizardly permissions, raises E_PERM.
    >
    [snip]

    It would probably be much easier to run a  program on your
    machine periodically that placed a text file with all the interesting
    information you want somewhere, and used $network or the gopher utils to
    fetch it.

    Eg.  The `dbsize' feature on LambdaMOO.

    bild@io.com