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

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

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)]

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 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 

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.)

- Barry

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

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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 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
>
> >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. :-)
	Igor
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Re: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

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.

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

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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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Obligatory mention of hippos for an on-topic message... :-)

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

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)]

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.

- Barry

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

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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