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Re: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:43:49PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
>
> > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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 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.
> > >
> > > It wasn't, actually. Thanks for a real answer. It's always annoyed
> > > me to see the leading "From" appear as ">From"... Heh, Microsoft
> > > has done something right for a change... :-) Igor
> >
> > >From other postings, <= cut and paste from above.
> ^^^^^
> > Sure it's not Outlook-QuoteFix? Immediately above, through the wonders
> > of cut-and-paste, is an experiment. This email (though not its text)
> > has never seen Outlook-QuoteFix. Did it still get =46 right? (I'm
> > loath to give MS undeserved credit.)
>
> Yep, what do you know, the "grim 'greater' garb" is back... Yay for
> QuoteFix. :-)
I got an =46.