I want to make it clear that I'm neither complaining nor asking for a change - just reporting something I've noticed in case it's of interest to anyone
basically, the nodename reported by uname is sometimes uppercase, sometimes lowercase - i.e. on my laptop sometimes I see: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ubik 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown and sometimes: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 UBIK 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown I only noticed only because I do stuff like: host = $(shell uname -n) ifeq (blorp,$(findstring blorp,$(host))) foo = bar endif in my makefiles, and I have to be careful about the case -John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/