We are getting somewhere here. I think I have to add code to support MacPerl and perl running under Windoze or DOS. Perhaps Parrot/Perl6 will fix it all up.
Using MPW on MacOS 9.1 perl -v This is perl, version 5.004 perl -e 'print `uname`;' ### ToolServer - Command "uname" was not found. (Not surprising.) perl -e 'print $^O;' MacOS Over on the MacPerl list the suggestion is to use Gestalt but I'll bet one can't do that until after the OS is determined somehow. I donno about uname on a M$ box but $^O returns: "MSWin32" or "dos" depending on how the perl script is executed, booting into real DOS or emulated DOS under Windoze. Note the non-use of lowercase in both MacPerl and Windoze versions. I'm pretty sure it's Active Perl but I really don't know what's in use at the other end. At 13:45 -0500 11/16/02, William H. Magill wrote: >opsys=`uname -a | cut -d" " -f1` > print " opsys = $opsys" >case $opsys in > OSF1) ?? DPM Is that for Open Software Foundation - Linux? > SunOS) ?? DPM My ISP returns "solaris" for $^O in perl 5.00x but >"SunOS" using uname. > HP-UX) > AIX) > Darwin|darwin) >esac -- --> In Christianity, man can have only one wife. This is known as monotony. <--
