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From:	Michael Richardson <mcr AT sandelman DOT ottawa DOT on DOT ca>
Subject:	$OS vs `uname -s`
Date:	Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:28:18 -0400
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I noticed that my cygwin bash shell has $OS defined already, as "Windows_NT"
while uname -s produces CYGWIN_NT-5.0. 

Normally, I expect `uname -r` to say "5.0", but it gives another number,
presumeably a cygwin version.

bash-3.00$ uname -s
CYGWIN_NT-5.0
bash-3.00$ echo $OS
Windows_NT

I only ask because my Makefiles from Unix would prefer to have $OS either not
set, or be equal to uname -s. Is there a reason why these things differ?
(My Makefile's will get changed to cope...)

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