From: garbanzo@hooked.net (Hmmmz)
Subject: Re: Unfortunate ouput from uname -s
17 Jul 1997 16:26:51 -0700
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On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Nicholas Brealey wrote:

> 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.

What about just CYGWIN32 or CYGWIN32-NT 

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