Am 05.05.2013 um 10:44 schrieb "phil@highoctane.be" <phil@highoctane.be>:

on Mobaxterm the output of uname -a is

[Philippe.DELLGFX] ��� uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 DELLGFX 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-28 12:24 i686 GNU/Linux


Clearly no Windows in there.

Hmm, I think you are running Windows 7 on a Dell laptop :) CYGWIN_NT-6.1 should be windows enough in there, right? CYG is a good information and the rest you can look up at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_6.1

Norbert