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RE: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:28:46 -0500
- Subject: RE: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
>>
>> H. S. wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> er .. how can I do that using SSH and non-interactively?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> ->HS
>>
>> From other postings, I see that you've found the answer to your
>> ^^^^^^ question. But for completeness in the archives ....
>>
>> I don't use SSH so don't know what you are dealing with. But in
>> shell scripts, if test -z "${NVAR}"
>> or
>> if test ! -z "${VAR}"
>> can test whether VAR has a value.
>
> I was a bit taken aback by seeing an unquoted initial "From" in a
> message, until I saw the raw message source. Looks like Barry's
> mailer uses quoted-printable encoding to quote the initial "F" (as
> "=46"). Very clever -- I wonder what mailer that is... Igor
Outlook 2003 SP1/Exchange Server with Outlook-QuoteFix ver. 0.90. I've
no control over it, except to use Outlook-QF.
If "Very clever ..." was meant to be sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek, sorry
to have answered seriously.
- Barry