Re: Environment variables

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: "'Robert Collins'" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>; "Cygwin-Xfree
List" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: RE: Environment variables


>
> > I expect that _every_ Novell user in the world will have this
happen.
> > It's not the sysadmin's fault.
> > It's the novell network client.
> >
> > Anyway it shouldn't be needed anymore with the new X server. All I
> > wanted to do by starting the new thread was point out that
> > the test for
> > OS="" is not valid for testing for win95.
>
> Ummm, I may be wrong then Microsoft maybe wrong too.  The idea of
> %OS% == "" came from vcvars32.bat in Visual Studio.
>
> Suhaib
>

Well, It wouldn't be the first time MS are wrong :]. They may expect OS
to be "", but they obviously haven't looked at the real world recently
:]

Rob