The most recent update to bash stopped exporting a lot of variables by default. I believe you'll find discussion of this in the cygwin mailing list archives.
It is documented too, although admittedly not in an especially prominent place. I re-found it just now in usr/doc/bash-2.05a/COMPAT (which documents incompatibilities between the current bash and the previous widely-available version, 1.14), item 15: Bash no longer auto-exports the HOME, PATH, SHELL, TERM, HOSTNAME, HOSTTYPE, MACHTYPE, or OSTYPE variables. I'll bet your Debian box is running a slightly older bash than is now included with Cygwin. stephan(); -----Original Message----- From: Jerome BENOIT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 2:25 PM To: Gerrit P. Haase @ cygwin Cc: Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT Subject: Re: OSTYPE Fine, but on my Debian box `printenv OSTYPE' gives something. Is it a cygwin feature ? Thanks, Jerome BENOIT "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > Hallo Jérôme-Georges-Michel, > > Am 2002-01-06 um 18:37 schriebst du: > > > Bonjour, > > > what have happened to OSTYPE ? > > > `printenv OSTYPE' gives nothing ! > > $ printenv | grep OSTYPE > > $ set | grep OSTYPE > OSTYPE=cygwin > > $ echo $OSTYPE > cygwin > > Gerrit > -- > =^..^= mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D. *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Institute of Molecular Biology Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena Winzerlaer Strasse 10, Jena 07745, Germany *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ [EMAIL PROTECTED] *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ -- 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/ -- 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/