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To: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Subject: Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]
In-Reply-To: Message from Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>     of "Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:49:38 MDT." <43008152.20500@byu.net>
References: <v0k6io1cwt DOT fsf AT marajade DOT sandelman DOT ottawa DOT on DOT ca>  <43008152 DOT 20500 AT byu DOT net>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:26:23 -0400
Message-ID: <22141.1124119583@marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr AT sandelman DOT ottawa DOT on DOT ca>

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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> writes:
    Eric> PLEASE fix your mailer to send valid mail.  It was difficult
    Eric> to see what you were asking, because your MIME settings are
    Eric> incorrect, and correct mailers only saw a blank message.

  Hmm. Please send me what you received (uuencode it), so I can have
GNUS and/or gmane.org fixed. (This email you sent directly to me, so you
are getting a different mail system replying)

    >> I only ask because my Makefiles from Unix would prefer to have
    >> $OS either not set, or be equal to uname -s. Is there a reason
    >> why these things differ?  (My Makefile's will get changed to
    >> cope...)

    Eric> If your setup is like mine, OS is an inherited environment
    Eric> variable, set by Windows before bash is even started.  You can
    Eric> set it to whatever you like.  Meanwhile, uname -s is not
    Eric> affected by the environment (you really don't want an
    Eric> environment variable changing the uname output).  Hmm, maybe
    Eric> we should update /etc/profile to do OS=`uname -s`.  Thoughts?

  Hmm. It didn't occur that $OS was from NT. Good point.
  I will just be avoiding $OS, and use another name. 

  I think that OS=`uname -s` is a reasonable thing to do. 

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