Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]

2005-08-15 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "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.

Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]

2005-08-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Eric Blake wrote: If your setup is like mine, OS is an inherited environment variable, set by Windows before bash is even started. You can set it to whatever you like. Meanwhile, uname -s is not affected by the environment (you really don't want an environment variable changing the uname outpu

Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PLEASE fix your mailer to send valid mail. It was difficult to see what you were asking, because your MIME settings are incorrect, and correct mailers only saw a blank message. According to Michael Richardson on 8/14/2005 2:28 PM: > I noticed that my