Re: [Mingw-users] How can I tell whether my prog is running on cmd.exe or bash?

[Michael Gerdau <mgerdau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have to confess that I didn't know that there were any other Unixy 
> shells on Windows (I haven't looked at MSYS). Besides, I've worked in 
> the industry I'm writing this app for for ~20 years, and I've never 
> heard of anyone using anything other than Cygwin or plain DOS.

That seems kind of ignorant. I still remember 4dos as the powerusers
shell during early MSDOS (was it 2.11, 3.x, 5.x ?  I no longer recall).

There always were all sorts of [ba]sh/[pd]ksh/csh/zsh available for MSDOS
and later the various Woe32.

Cygwin was only one of them and still is. You might try to google for
   win32+<one_of_the_acronyms_above>
and you'll find lots. I'm sure there exist even more I don't know about :-)

> The smart 
> ones are on Solaris or Linux; the cash-strapped ones are on Cygwin; the 
> amateurs are on Windows GUI apps.

Having been on OS/2 and now on Linux I won't challenge that claim ;-)

Best,
Michael
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