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Re: Cygwin version 1.3.2
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:53:28PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Well, there are quite a few "fields" on the full uname output
>line. The most interesting for me as a developer supporting
>multiple platforms are:
>
> 1. Operating System Name (field one -- uname -s)
> 2. Operating System Release (field 3 -- uname -r)
>
>and much less
>
> 3. Operating System Version (starts in field 4 -- uname -v)
>
>I think of Cygwin as the Operating System Name and
>the dll version (1.3.2) as the Operating System Release.
>
>The extra information you supply seem to me best in the Operating
>System Version field. So, instead of:
>
> CYGWIN_98-4.10 MINIMATOU 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i586
>unknown
>
>I would suggest something like:
>
> CYGWIN MINIMATOU 1.3.2 (0.39/3/2)-Win98-4.10 2001-05-20 23:28 i586
>unknown
>
>so uname -s would print CYGWIN
> uname -r 1.3.2
> uname -v (0.39/3/2)-Win98-4.10 2001-05-20 23:28
Take a look at the utsname structure. This obviously won't work.
Just use wildcards in if the extra information after the CYGWIN
offends you.
cgf
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