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RE: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:28:52 -0500
- Subject: RE: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
>
>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> H. S. wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>> er .. how can I do that using SSH and non-interactively?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> ->HS
>>>>
>>>> From other postings, I see that you've found the answer to your
>>>> ^^^^^^ question. But for completeness in the archives ....
>>>>
>>>> I don't use SSH so don't know what you are dealing with. But in
>>>> shell scripts, if test -z "${NVAR}"
>>>> or
>>>> if test ! -z "${VAR}"
>>>> can test whether VAR has a value.
>>>
>>> I was a bit taken aback by seeing an unquoted initial "From" in a
>>> message, until I saw the raw message source. Looks like Barry's
>>> mailer uses quoted-printable encoding to quote the initial "F" (as
>>> "=46"). Very clever -- I wonder what mailer that is... Igor
>>
>> Outlook 2003 SP1/Exchange Server with Outlook-QuoteFix ver. 0.90.
>> I've no control over it, except to use Outlook-QF.
>>
>> If "Very clever ..." was meant to be sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek,
>> sorry to have answered seriously.
>
> It wasn't, actually. Thanks for a real answer. It's always annoyed
> me to see the leading "From" appear as ">From"... Heh,
Microsoft
> has done something right for a change... :-) Igor
From other postings, <= cut and paste from above.
Sure it's not Outlook-QuoteFix? Immediately above, through the wonders
of cut-and-paste, is an experiment. This email (though not its text)
has never seen Outlook-QuoteFix. Did it still get =46 right? (I'm
loath to give MS undeserved credit.)
- Barry