On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, stephan beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> That looks like a pretty safe way to check for platform-specific
> commands

But costly at the same time, and you have to make sure that you don't
create any side effects in the execution.  I'd be very careful here.

> (or maybe <available> could be extended to look for a system
> command).

I think it can already do so, at least to a certain extent.

Stefan

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