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Re: bash-2.05a-1: OSTYPE is empty


On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:13:32PM +0100, Mader, Alexander wrote:
> Daniel Steinmann wrote:
> 
> > Today I upgraded to bash-2.05a-1 and noticed that the variable
> > OSTYPE is empty. Other variables like OS are still ok. So I rolled
> > back to bash-2.05-8; in this version I get the expected value
> > 'cygwin'.
> > 
> > Is this just my machine (Win2k prof, cygwin-1.3.5) or has anybody
> > else noticed the same problem?
> > 
> > Daniel.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hallo Daniel,
> 
> it seems okay with my machine (NT, todays Cygwin), see below.

However, the following is given in the ChangeLog:

x.  Bash no longer auto-exports HOSTNAME, HOSTTYPE, MACHTYPE, or OSTYPE,
    even if it assigns them default values.

Try

	set | grep OS

and these variables are still available, just not exported.

Corinna

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