Subject: uname fails with BSDI netscape
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <jaywon!HeadCandy.com!michaelv@life.ai.mit.edu>
From: David Gilbert <pci!jaywon!dgilbert@life.ai.mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 01/15/1996 16:23:11
>>>>> ""Michael" == "Michael L VanLoon <-- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>> writes:

Michael> Does anyone know why the BSDI version of netscape reports
Michael> that uname fails when trying to figure out what system it's
Michael> running on, when running it on NetBSD (1.1)?

Michael> Apparently, the FreeBSD guys fixed this somehow, though I'm
Michael> not sure what they did.  This might be something worth
Michael> fixing in the near future so that all those people out there
Michael> compiling net statistics off web servers see that NetBSD
Michael> does actually exist.

	Does the BSDI version do something drastically different than
the rest?  I run the SunOS Netscape 1.1 on the sparc port (Sun4/260)
all the time (as I gatther do others).

Dave.

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