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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eric> PLEASE fix your mailer to send valid mail. It was difficult
Eric> to see what you were asking, because your MIME settings are
Eric> incorrect, and correct mailers only saw a blank message.
Hmm. Please send me what you received (uuencode it), so I can have
GNUS and/or gmane.org fixed. (This email you sent directly to me, so you
are getting a different mail system replying)
>> I only ask because my Makefiles from Unix would prefer to have
>> $OS either not set, or be equal to uname -s. Is there a reason
>> why these things differ? (My Makefile's will get changed to
>> cope...)
Eric> If your setup is like mine, OS is an inherited environment
Eric> variable, set by Windows before bash is even started. You can
Eric> set it to whatever you like. Meanwhile, uname -s is not
Eric> affected by the environment (you really don't want an
Eric> environment variable changing the uname output). Hmm, maybe
Eric> we should update /etc/profile to do OS=`uname -s`. Thoughts?
Hmm. It didn't occur that $OS was from NT. Good point.
I will just be avoiding $OS, and use another name.
I think that OS=`uname -s` is a reasonable thing to do.
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