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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Paul Johnston wrote: > > No, I'm not. I'm incorporating Warren Young's suggestion. Unless someone > > with ME can confirm that 'uname -s' returns CYGWIN_9*? Nicholas? > > To me that's a step backwards - uname -s or $OS are the correct ways to > detect the operating system. Warren's approach would be fooled if a user > defined $SYSTEMROOT on Win 9x. Win 9x does not set $OS... At least my Win 98 machine at home doesn't. Besides, the user can always set $OS to fool the script, by the same token. I'd prefer 'uname -s'. Pending confirmation from someone with Win ME... > Nit picks... FILES=... should probably go nearer the top Agreed. > On reflection, I think we'll always want it verbose, so we could lose > $VERBOSE Probably. In which case we should also print messages if the OS is not detected or $WINETC is not found... > That's gotta be it... in principle this is a very simple script! Ok, one more iteration (script attached)... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file
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