From: nick@orpwood.demon.co.uk (Nicholas Brealey)
Subject: Unfortunate ouput from uname -s
17 Jul 1997 14:21:20 -0700
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Hi

I think the output from uname -s is unfortunate. 
If I recall correctly in prints CYGWIN32/NT which is unforunate
because I cannot trivially construct a file name from it (because of the
slash) as I can on SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX etc.

CYGWIN32_NT would be a better name.

Nick
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