RE: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
> >>
> >> H. S. wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>> er .. how can I do that using SSH and non-interactively?
> >>>
> >>> thanks,
> >>> ->HS
> >>
> >> From other postings, I see that you've found the answer to your
> >> ^^^^^^ question.  But for completeness in the archives ....
> >>
> >> I don't use SSH so don't know what you are dealing with.  But in
> >> 	shell scripts, if test -z "${NVAR}"
> >> or
> >> 	if test ! -z "${VAR}"
> >> can test whether VAR has a value.
> >
> > I was a bit taken aback by seeing an unquoted initial "From" in a
> > 	message, until I saw the raw message source.  Looks like Barry's
> > mailer uses quoted-printable encoding to quote the initial "F" (as
> > "=46").  Very clever -- I wonder what mailer that is... Igor
>
> Outlook 2003 SP1/Exchange Server with Outlook-QuoteFix ver. 0.90.  I've
> no control over it, except to use Outlook-QF.
>
> If "Very clever ..." was meant to be sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek, sorry
> to have answered seriously.

It wasn't, actually.  Thanks for a real answer.  It's always annoyed me to
see the leading "From" appear as ">From"...  Heh, Microsoft has done
something right for a change... :-)
	Igor
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