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To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Nov 1998 09:12:33 PST."
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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 09:32:59 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> of the expected "Linux".  Thus, I had to alter uname(1) 
> to report "Linux" to install the software.  With the

Ick.  This hack seems to be insufficiently general if you're going
to hack it like this.  Why not make a UNAME_OS_OVERRIDE variable
or something which simply contains the string to spit out?! :-)

- Jordan


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