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RE: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?


On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:

> 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.)

Yep, what do you know, the "grim 'greater' garb" is back...  Yay for
QuoteFix. :-)
	Igor
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