uname output ?

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, at 1:16pm, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> Since this new version of uname is evidently so new that the GNU project
> hasn't even updated their own web pages for it ...

  That just means it was released within the past five years.  GNU's project
management makes Microsoft's look good.

> Therefore, the only way to discover what this field reports on other
> distros or versions of UNIX is to get the source for sh-utils ...

  Here's a radical idea: Get the source for the package and see where the
hell it gets all these identification strings in the first place.  :)

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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