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On 29/09/2009 16:04, David M. Besonen wrote:
> assuming i have both 1.5 and 1.7 installed, is there a way
> for me to determine from a cygwin bash shell which version of
> cygwin i'm using?

There are a few options:

* uname -r
* cygcheck -cd cygwin
* Change your PS1 in $HOME/.bash_console.


Yaakov

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