On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 12:09 , Mayank Ahuja wrote: [..] > $^O The name of the operating system under which this > copy of Perl was built, as determined during the > configuration process. The value is identical to > $Config{'osname'}. [..]
so why not do the old fashion use Confing; my $osName = $Config{'osname'}; that should survive the 'compile' time process.... ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]