Hello Lucas,
Lucas Gonze wrote:
>
> that is a far cleaner approach than mine. We should use it.
>
> But I see that your version of cygwin lists ostype as "CYGWIN_NT-5.0", while
> my
> version cygwin on win98 lists ostype as "cygwin". So that is a secondary bug.
Yes, that's a bug. It also could be your version of Cygwin is older.
What version are you running?
> I don't know shell syntax to match both of those expressions. In java this
> would be:
> if( ostype.toLowerCase().indexOf("cygwin") == 0 ) {...}
>
> suggestions?
Try changing the line near the top from:
CYGWIN*) cygwin=true ;;
to:
CYGWIN*|cygwin*) cygwin=true ;;
-Bill