Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:42:05 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Checking Cygwin version (FAQ Alert!) In-Reply-To: <20040222180236.A20674@ns1.iocc.com> Message-ID: References: <4033DF4C.2060008@jhu.edu> <20040222180236.A20674@ns1.iocc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:11:57PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jeffrey J. Gray wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > > ... and I'm running .... hm, not sure how to check my Cygwin version, > > > it's probably ~4 months old .... on WinXP. > > > > Jeff, > > > > Just like on any Unix system, "uname -srv" will return the kernel (in > > Cygwin's case, cygwin1.dll) version. On Cygwin, you can also use > > "cygcheck -srv" to get detailed information about your system (essential > > for diagnosing Cygwin problems, see ), or > > "cygcheck -cd" to just get the versions of all installed packages (or omit > > the "-d" flag to also check them for integrity). If you post the output > > of either "cygcheck -srv" or "cygcheck -cd", please *attach* it to your > > message, rather than including it inline. > > Or, since all he wanted was the Cygwin version, just "uname -r" or > "cygcheck -cd cygwin" would work fine. :) > > > P.S. I was surprised that this isn't in the FAQ. David, could you please > > add this, under the heading "What version of Cygwin do I have?" or > > something? Oh, and BTW, there's a "What version is this, anyway?" entry > > that has nothing to do with this question, and is pretty confusing. > > Since David is still AWOL, I guess I've taken over FAQ maintainence too. > I rewrote most of the "What version is this, anyway?" entry, removing > all the references to the 'recent' (2000 April) switch to setup.exe, > and noting the difference between Cygwin the package and Cygwin the system. > You can read it at: > > Looks good, thanks. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/