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Re: programming API to determine whether in 'Cygwin environment'


On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:34:30AM -0400, William Sutton wrote:
>All the same, you should probably check to see that whatever variables
>you choose to key off of don't alter the way your program behaves in
>other alternate Windows shells.  A co-worker of mine uses 4NT, which
>provides UNIX command and shell emulation in a native Windows format.
>I expect it has at least $SHELL and/or $TERM.

I've been using 4NT for years.  I love it.

My version of 4NT doesn't set SHELL or TERM.

cgf

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