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From: Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>
To: noloader@gmail.com
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to check cygwin version?
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 15:58:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANtRgYf+pYR1ui=4kDbw_qiPDvcmC-Hb+q61ye4ARv=WmLyCwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8noPqzyKHyNVhfnsPB5umhMj0wDiAvz1Jur_7s9LCe7xg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jeffrey Walton via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

> I think the documentation leaves a lot to be desired... I'm trying to
> tell someone what version of Cygwin I am using.
>
> There's a FAQ item at
> https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.what.version. It gives this
> useless advice:
>
>    To find the version of the Cygwin DLL installed, you can use uname
>    as on Linux
>


$ uname -r
3.1.5(0.340/5/3)

This is what I always do

- Eric L

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-01 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-01 13:36 Jeffrey Walton
2020-07-01 13:51 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-07-01 13:58 ` Eric Lilja [this message]
2020-07-01 15:58 ` Phill Ramsden
2020-07-02  5:20 ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-02 15:34   ` Norton Allen
2020-07-03  3:38     ` FAQ 1.5 changes (was: How to check cygwin version?) Brian Inglis
2020-07-03  4:02       ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-04 12:39         ` FAQ 1.5 changes Mark Hansen
2020-07-02 16:13 How to check cygwin version? KARL BOTTS

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