From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14770 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2004 00:02:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14568 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 00:02:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ns1.iocc.com) (12.41.224.37) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 00:02:29 -0000 Received: from mail.yahoo.com (ns1.iocc.com [12.41.224.37]) by ns1.iocc.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i1N02al20793; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:02:36 -0600 Received: by mail.yahoo.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:02:36 -0600 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:42:00 -0000 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Checking Cygwin version (FAQ Alert!) (Was Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?) Message-ID: <20040222180236.A20674@ns1.iocc.com> References: <4033DF4C.2060008@jhu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu on Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:11:57PM -0500 X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg01209.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:11:57PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jeffrey J. Gray wrote: > > > [snip] > > ... and I'm running .... hm, not sure how to check my Cygwin version, > > it's probably ~4 months old .... on WinXP. > > Jeff, > > Just like on any Unix system, "uname -srv" will return the kernel (in > Cygwin's case, cygwin1.dll) version. On Cygwin, you can also use > "cygcheck -srv" to get detailed information about your system (essential > for diagnosing Cygwin problems, see ), or > "cygcheck -cd" to just get the versions of all installed packages (or omit > the "-d" flag to also check them for integrity). If you post the output > of either "cygcheck -srv" or "cygcheck -cd", please *attach* it to your > message, rather than including it inline. Or, since all he wanted was the Cygwin version, just "uname -r" or "cygcheck -cd cygwin" would work fine. :) > P.S. I was surprised that this isn't in the FAQ. David, could you please > add this, under the heading "What version of Cygwin do I have?" or > something? Oh, and BTW, there's a "What version is this, anyway?" entry > that has nothing to do with this question, and is pretty confusing. Since David is still AWOL, I guess I've taken over FAQ maintainence too. I rewrote most of the "What version is this, anyway?" entry, removing all the references to the 'recent' (2000 April) switch to setup.exe, and noting the difference between Cygwin the package and Cygwin the system. You can read it at: -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/