On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:36:42AM -0600, Dave Bodenstab wrote: >Is there a reference for what is returned for each windows release? On my >only windows (I only have these for a couple of games and the digital cameras) >systems I get: > > Win98SE sysname="CYGWIN_98-4.10" > WinXP sysname="CYGWIN_NT-5.1" > >I would have expected "XP" rather than "NT"... I thought I read somewhere >that NT is obsolete or at least unsupported now? Does the 4.10 or 5.1 >mean anything important?
Don't worry. Cygwin automatically downgrades your Windows software to the level that it requires for correct operation -- NT-5.1 in this case. You're actually pretty lucky since, in many cases, Cygwin may end up downgrading the OS all the way back to MS-DOS 6.0, and in certain rare cases straight to CPM. One person even reported that a Cygwin bug caused OS "wrapping" and he found himself running FreeBSD, but I think that might have just been a cockpit error. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
