From: david AT coent DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (David Coe)
Subject: Re: How to determine running under bash or cmd.exe
24 Oct 1996 00:36:55 -0700
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Mansuriatus Shahrir Amir wrote:
> 

> 1) I only managed to get man.exe to compile. However my problem is to find
> a clean way for console programs to determine whether they are running bash
> or cmd.exe/command.com, so that '\\" or '/' can be automatically configured
> like all Cygnus tools. If I port it for unix it'll run well under bash but not under cmd.exe and vice versa.

Which variant of man are you using? Man1.4h (from the linux
distribution) which I posted on the list a while back doesn't seem to
mind whether it runs under sh or cmd.

Good luck

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