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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:13:43 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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To: jorg DOT schaible AT db DOT com
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Subject: Re: $OSTYPE - Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh !
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jorg DOT schaible AT db DOT com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> with the lastest version of the bash the content of $OSTYPE has changed from "cygwin" to "cygwin32" again without further notice. Since I used this entry to detect the old B20.1 from the new Cygnus V1.1 I have now a lot of broken scripts and makefiles that have to run on both versions. This drives me really crazy!
> 
> So is there any *reliable* method to detect the version of Cygwin from a script ?

uname -r

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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