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 ** Improved portability
 
+  hostid now prints exactly 8 hexadecimal digits, possibly with leading zeros,
+  and without any spurious leading "fff..." on 64-bit hosts.
+
   nice now works on Darwin 7.7.0 in spite of its invalid definition of NZERO.
 
   `rm -r' can remove all entries in a directory even when it is on a