From: mason@primenet.com.au (Geoff Wing)
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: more definitive OSTYPE ...
Date: 17 Oct 1997 15:00:37 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn64evck.p0m.mason@coral.primenet.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199710171301.JAA17430@procyon.ccs.neu.edu>
Hank Hughes <thigpen@ccs.neu.edu> typed:
: 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.
OSTYPE is defined at zsh compile time. Running `uname' will normally
query your OS. They serve different purposes.
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1997-10-17 13:01 Hank Hughes
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