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gornvix
gornvix

Reputation: 3382

Awkward host name when running Erlang getting started program

On Windows 7 I have entered and compiled the "tut17" program from the page: http://www.erlang.org/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.html#id68449

I set the HOME variable to "C:\Users\Name" and I have created a cookie file ".erlang.cookie" in the "C:\Users\Name" directory.

I have started two command prompts as described on the above page. The problem is that the host name is "Name-PC". So when I start the ping process I get a message as follows:

(ping@Name-PC)2> tut17:start_ping(pong@Name-PC).
* 1: variable 'PC' is unbound

How can I get around this problem (presumably) with the hyphen in the host name?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 103

Answers (1)

Pascal
Pascal

Reputation: 14042

Put pong@Name-PC between ' (single quotes). 'pong@Name-PC' will be interpreted as a single atom rather than the atom pong@Name minus the variable PC.

Upvotes: 5

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