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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 00:26:10 -1000
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
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Subject: detecting runtime environment
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I want a program (written in C) to behave a little differently depending
on whether it's started in a cygwin window or started from a DOS/Windows
command prompt window.  Is there a standard method for detecting, at
run-time, which environment a program was started in?

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