From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25131 invoked from network); 17 Oct 1997 13:06:00 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Oct 1997 13:06:00 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA12851; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:00:31 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:00:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710171301.JAA17430@procyon.ccs.neu.edu> To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: more definitive OSTYPE ... X-Face: )MW=NXLO6sTwb%nID[Y@9n][Y,nom#u2~RwbK++HC_A6BuAlqSYAhL2DCb"kZ7!"3{UNt9T px#FEDTvs{\[+9V2^=sI!(,!p[ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:01:08 -0400 From: Hank Hughes Resent-Message-ID: <"kOwKA2.0.883.T5sHq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1086 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Am I doing something wrong? I notice OSTYPE is mostly correct, however, sometimes I get slight discrepancies like: 1009 % echo $OSTYPE sunos4.1.3 [ thigpen@k2 (8:55AM) ~ ] 1010 % uname -a SunOS k2.ccs.neu.edu 4.1.4 1 sun4m unknown It seems that major types are used not revisions/updates/minor-types. I'd rather use and depend on builtins like OSTYPE (or something similar) rather than run something else. Concerned, :-) -Hank ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hank Hughes thigpen@ccs.neu.edu http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/thigpen/ Random Quote #438: "Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident." - Mark Twain