At 11:39 -0800 16/11/02, drieux wrote:
[jeeves: 1:] perl -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{osname} \n"; '
which in turn is stored in Config.pm, typically somewhere like /Library/Perl/darwin/Config.pm or System/Library/Perl/darwin/Config.pmAs for how this gets set - it gets set when your version of perl is built for that specific OS.
this can be handy if you need to "correct" any settings (such as library or include paths).
Enjoy,
Peter.
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