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Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 06:12:04 +0300
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [1.7] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1
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> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 02:52:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Marc Girod <marc.girod@gmail.com>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > ...if Emacs could know the Cygwin version.
> > 
> uname -r
> 
> this gives on 2 installations e.g.:
> 
> 1.5.25(0.156/4/2)
> 1.7.0(0.210/5/3)
> 
> $ ./uname -s
> CYGWIN_NT-6.0

I meant an Emacs function, not an external program.  That Emacs
function could call the same API that uname uses to report these
values, but depending on external programs that are not necessarily
installed is not the best idea.

Thanks.

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