Environment variables

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Thu Apr 12 04:29:00 GMT 2001


> I expect that _every_ Novell user in the world will have this happen.
> It's not the sysadmin's fault.
> It's the novell network client.
> 
> Anyway it shouldn't be needed anymore with the new X server. All I
> wanted to do by starting the new thread was point out that 
> the test for
> OS="" is not valid for testing for win95.

Ummm, I may be wrong then Microsoft maybe wrong too.  The idea of
%OS% == "" came from vcvars32.bat in Visual Studio.

Suhaib


> So that if a new 
> batch file is
> ever needed, it can be better.
> 
> if os != NT is valid, and something like
> if "A%OSA" == "AWindows_NT" goto NT
> goto 95
> 
> :NT
> ...
> goto exit
> 
> :95
> ...
> goto exit
> 
> :exit
> ^Z
> 
> 
> would be much more reliable.
> 
> Rob
> 
> > ==
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > >
> >
> 



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