Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:11:57 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Checking Cygwin version (FAQ Alert!) (Was Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?) In-Reply-To: <4033DF4C.2060008@jhu.edu> Message-ID: References: <4033DF4C DOT 2060008 AT jhu DOT edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jeffrey J. Gray wrote: > [snip] > ... and I'm running .... hm, not sure how to check my Cygwin version, > it's probably ~4 months old .... on WinXP. Jeff, Just like on any Unix system, "uname -srv" will return the kernel (in Cygwin's case, cygwin1.dll) version. On Cygwin, you can also use "cygcheck -srv" to get detailed information about your system (essential for diagnosing Cygwin problems, see ), or "cygcheck -cd" to just get the versions of all installed packages (or omit the "-d" flag to also check them for integrity). If you post the output of either "cygcheck -srv" or "cygcheck -cd", please *attach* it to your message, rather than including it inline. Igor P.S. I was surprised that this isn't in the FAQ. David, could you please add this, under the heading "What version of Cygwin do I have?" or something? Oh, and BTW, there's a "What version is this, anyway?" entry that has nothing to do with this question, and is pretty confusing. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/