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RE: OSTYPE
- From: "Stephan Mueller" <smueller at microsoft dot com>
- To: <JGMBenoit at Wanadoo dot fr>,"Gerrit P. Haase @ cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:23:48 -0800
- Subject: RE: OSTYPE
The most recent update to bash stopped exporting a lot of variables by default. I believe you'll find discussion of this in the cygwin mailing list archives.
It is documented too, although admittedly not in an especially prominent place. I re-found it just now in usr/doc/bash-2.05a/COMPAT (which documents incompatibilities between the current bash and the previous widely-available version, 1.14), item 15:
Bash no longer auto-exports the HOME, PATH, SHELL, TERM, HOSTNAME, HOSTTYPE, MACHTYPE, or OSTYPE variables.
I'll bet your Debian box is running a slightly older bash than is now included with Cygwin.
stephan();
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerome BENOIT [mailto:520066587150-0001@t-online.de]
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 2:25 PM
To: Gerrit P. Haase @ cygwin
Cc: Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT
Subject: Re: OSTYPE
Fine,
but on my Debian box
`printenv OSTYPE' gives something.
Is it a cygwin feature ?
Thanks,
Jerome BENOIT
"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>
> Hallo Jérôme-Georges-Michel,
>
> Am 2002-01-06 um 18:37 schriebst du:
>
> > Bonjour,
>
> > what have happened to OSTYPE ?
>
> > `printenv OSTYPE' gives nothing !
>
> $ printenv | grep OSTYPE
>
> $ set | grep OSTYPE
> OSTYPE=cygwin
>
> $ echo $OSTYPE
> cygwin
>
> Gerrit
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