noob question

[Frank Shute]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:30:32PM -0800, mdh wrote:
>
> >
> > A couple of tips for the future: address your questions to
> > questions@ rather than chat@ and preface your question with the
> > output of: 
> > 
> > $ uname -rms
> 
> The uname -rms command only works on the HURD operating system.  It
> returns the current running version of Richard Stallman on stdout.
> For FreeBSD users, I suggest the alternate uname -smr command, which
> returns their OSname, OSversion, and arch on stdout.  
> 

:)

If RMS runs like the HURD, then he's probably suffering from some
lengthy, terminal disease ;)

FreeBSD should return the OS details for uname -beast

Could be used in send-pr etc. and is easy to remember like -rms!


Regards,

-- 

 Frank 


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