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Re: Environment variables
- To: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>,"Cygwin-Xfree List" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: Environment variables
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:35:20 +1000
- References: <7F2B9185F0196F44B59990759B91B1C23C357D@ins-exch.inspirepharm.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: "'Robert Collins'" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>; "Cygwin-Xfree
List" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: RE: Environment variables
>
> > I expect that _every_ Novell user in the world will have this
happen.
> > It's not the sysadmin's fault.
> > It's the novell network client.
> >
> > Anyway it shouldn't be needed anymore with the new X server. All I
> > wanted to do by starting the new thread was point out that
> > the test for
> > OS="" is not valid for testing for win95.
>
> Ummm, I may be wrong then Microsoft maybe wrong too. The idea of
> %OS% == "" came from vcvars32.bat in Visual Studio.
>
> Suhaib
>
Well, It wouldn't be the first time MS are wrong :]. They may expect OS
to be "", but they obviously haven't looked at the real world recently
:]
Rob