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On 2/8/22 2:01 PM, julie77793 AT gmail DOT com wrote:
> Cygwin doesn't create an environment variable in bash to indicate that the
> platform is Cygwin under Windows.
>
> This causes compatibility problems when running various tools. Most of my
> issues have been with Python tools running Windows Python.
>
> I have been addressing this issue by grepping PATH for cygdrive which
> doesn't seem like a very good approach.
>
> Both msys2 and mingw solve this issue by setting the MSYSTEM environment
> variable which lets tools check that OS=Windows_NT and MSYSTEM=MSYS
>
> Please add some way of identifying that programs are running under Cygwin.
>
And of course there's

    $ uname -o
    Cygwin

-ernie


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