IPAddress XFCNs - by Carl W. Bell
Copyright © 1993 Baylor University

Note: If you got here using a web search engine, you can find the program here.

Disclaimer: Although these XFCNs seems to work fine, they are distributed "as is". Use at your own risk. So there.

These are some XFCNs that return IP addresses of local/remote computers and stuff. A stack is included that demonstrates their use. Look in the scripts of the two buttons for the actual syntax and stuff.

GetLocalIPAddress - returns the address (number format) of the local machine (i.e., your Mac)

NameToAddress - returns the address (number format) of a remote computer given a host name.

AddressToDot - converts the addresses from number format into human readable "dot" format (w.x.y.z)

AddressToName - returns the name of a remote machine given the address (number format)

DotToAddress - converts an address from human readable "dot" format (w.x.y.z) into a number

I believe there are "official" XCMDs from Apple that do some of these things in a MacTCP tool kit (or something like that) so you may want to use those instead.

If you have any questions, comments, (constructive) criticism, or bug reports please let me know. You can contact me at the address(es) below.

-cb

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Carl W. Bell
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