[Lazarus] Finding out the Hostname of the Computer.

[Malcolm Poole]

Aleš Katona wrote:
> If you want the value of $HOSTNAME, use unit SysUtils and GetEnvironmentVariable('HOSTNAME');
>   
Hmm. This was the first thing that I tried. For some reason I get an 
empty string on my system (Ubuntu Gutsy). That's why I dug around and 
found the GetHostName function.

Any idea why GetEnvironmentVariable('HOSTNAME') doesn't work for me? 
'echo $HOSTNAME' on the commandline works as expected.

Malcolm