At 05:26 AM 1/9/2004, Antonio Querubin you wrote: >I want a program (written in C) to behave a little differently depending >on whether it's started in a cygwin window or started from a DOS/Windows >command prompt window. Is there a standard method for detecting, at >run-time, which environment a program was started in?
Standard? No. Probably relying on environment variables is the most common approach to something like this. You could look for "SHELL" for example. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/