in reply to reading env variable in cygwin using perl

My Cygwin %ENV (@work) has `OS`, not `OSTYPE`. Try running 
perl -e 'print $ENV{OS}'

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, which gives me `Windows_NT`.

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Re^2: reading env variable in cygwin using perl
by blogical (Pilgrim) on Mar 27, 2006 at 17:01 UTC
    ... or did you mean `$^OS`, which may be different?

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