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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 23:32:34 -0800
To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: RE: Which OS Type
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At 23:24 2002-04-04, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gupta, Sanjay [mailto:SGupta AT Epylon DOT com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:04 PM
> > To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> > Subject: Re: Which OS Type
> >
> >
> > Thanks Randall R Schulz,
> > Your response was very quick. I just want to make sure that
> > all windows platforms have CYGWIN_ as prefix in cygwin, then
> > I can simply grep CYGWIN_ from uname.
>
>They do not. Cygwin is one portability layer, not the only one.


Rob,

Sanjay wrote "... all windows platforms have CYGWIN_ as prefix in cygwin ..."

In Uwin, for example (if that's really one of the alternatives to Cygwin), 
naturally the prefix won't be "CYGWIN" but regardless of which Windows OS 
is running Cygwin, the _Cygwin_ uname output will have "CYGWIN" as a 
prefix. I believe what Sanjay was asking about was the latter 
interpretation: Regardless of the Windows variant on which Cygwin is 
running, the uname output will begin with CYGWIN.

Randall Schulz
Mountain VIew, CA USA


>Rob


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