Re: LYNX-DEV addressing mail to your friends

[T.E.Dickey]

> > Type ! and wait for a prompt.  Then type 'uname -a'.  Then type
> > 'exit'.  Will that work on all systems?
> 
> Maybe only Un*x?  There was just discussion about the desire to
> support all the ports of Lynx: Unix, VMS, Win32, 386DOS, and we
> all hope Mac and OS/2, someday.
the GNU ports (djgpp, etc.), provide a 'uname' (though the config.guess
script doesn't do anything with it).  However, the configure script won't
produce anything useful on MS-DOS (djgpp) because PDCurses is a little
far off from Unix-compatible checks.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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