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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:38:26 -0500
To: Antonio Querubin <tony AT lava DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: detecting runtime environment
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At 05:26 AM 1/9/2004, Antonio Querubin you wrote:
>I want a program (written in C) to behave a little differently depending
>on whether it's started in a cygwin window or started from a DOS/Windows
>command prompt window.  Is there a standard method for detecting, at
>run-time, which environment a program was started in?


Standard?  No.  Probably relying on environment variables is the most
common approach to something like this.  You could look for "SHELL" for
example.


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