Vincent Bufferne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Within a perl script, I would like to get the architecture type of the
> machine (ia32, ia64, pa-risc...).
> Is there an equivalent routine to the shell call "uname -a" in Perl?
>

It's usefulness is very variable, depending on the platform you're
using, but you might try

  use POSIX 'uname'

On my Cygwin installation the following works fine:

$ perl -MPOSIX=uname -e 'print map "> $_\n", uname'
> CYGWIN_98-4.10
> home
> 1.3.22(0.78/3/2)
> 2003-03-18 09:20
> i686




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