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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to find VERSION of UNIX OS
Message-ID: <16279@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 27 May 91 03:10:05 GMT
References: <1991May24.163048.4493@ida.liu.se> <1991May26.030122.20964@Think.COM> <3592@charon.cwi.nl>
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In article <3592@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>And to use uname to do it you have to know the version first.

No, in fact on the half-a-zillion UNIX systems on which I have accounts,
I can type "uname -a" on all of them and get the version information.
That's because when I log in I set up my PATH environment variable to
include ALL the potential system software directories, not just /bin.