cygwin GURU needed: native cygwin, native DOS and perl:

[Christopher Faylor]

Hate to be pedantic but this isn't really a question for this mailing list.

Use cygwin@cygwin.com.

cgf

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:48:05AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>Bonjour:
>
>A TeX tool programmer asks me the fellowing question ?
>
>> How can we set the default for
>> the gs command name in the perl script?
>>
>> For example I can ask $^O: So I know if the perl
>> is a cygwin port. But then, what is the best method
>> to check, whether "gs" is installed or "gswin32c" has
>> to be used?
>>
>> For example:
>>   $foo = `type gs`
>> or
>>   $foo = `gs --version`
>> and checking error codes and output?