From: andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk (Andy Piper)
Subject: Re: How programs can check which Cygwin32 version is running
11 Jun 1998 01:22:01 -0700
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To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru>
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At 01:15 AM 6/11/98 +0000, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 08:38:53AM +0100, Andy Piper wrote:
>[...]
>> I thought if something else while I was driving in this morning. I know
>> cygwin32 is "beta" but with XEmacs (and I guess other things as well) there
>> is no way to tell which beta version someone is running. Obviously the
>> version has implications on the features supported and the include
>> files.
>
>Well, configuration mechanisms can currently check the version output
>from uname.  That's one way to do it.

This only verifies the dll version not the header versions.

andy
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