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

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:43:49PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
> >
> > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > 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 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
> > >
> > > >From other postings, <= cut and paste from above.
> >   ^^^^^
> > > Sure it's not Outlook-QuoteFix?  Immediately above, through the wonders
> > > of cut-and-paste, is an experiment.  This email (though not its text)
> > > has never seen Outlook-QuoteFix.  Did it still get =46 right?  (I'm
> > > loath to give MS undeserved credit.)
> >
> > Yep, what do you know, the "grim 'greater' garb" is back...  Yay for
> > QuoteFix. :-)
>
> I got an =46.

Why, so you did (as did the web archives).  Interesting.  Looks like my
mailer (pine) is partly to blame for the leading "From" quoting...  I
wonder if the leading "From" will end up quoted when posting from pine:
From testing.
	Igor
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