I'm sorry Jerome but this issue has been discussed to death in the email archives. If you want to find out why OSTYPE and various other environment variables are no longer set by default in bash, please check the email archives. The reason and discussion is all there. Let's keep the rehash of this issue to a minimum, OK?
TIA, Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 05:25 PM 1/6/2002, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >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/