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From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Unfortunate ouput from uname -s
21 Jul 1997 02:30:52 -0700 :
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Distribution: cygnus
Message-ID: <199707210859.BAA02974.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com>
Original-To: garbanzo AT hooked DOT net (Hmmmz)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970717151641.291B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> from "Hmmmz" at Jul 17, 97 03:17:57 pm
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Hmmmz wrote:
> 
> > If I recall correctly in prints CYGWIN32/NT which is unforunate
> > because I cannot trivially construct a file name from it (because of the
> > slash) as I can on SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX etc.
>
> > CYGWIN32_NT would be a better name.

As requested, I'm changing the output of uname to Cygwin32_NT and
Cygwin32_95.  Configure mechanisms hopefully won't need changing since
config.guess just looks for *cygwin*.

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Geoffrey Noer
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