Hi Thorsten, > depending on the OS. In elisp there is the variable 'system-name' to > find out about the OS. Is there something similar in picolisp (I could > not find anything)?
Yes, it is the global '*OS'. Its value is determined at build-time, from the variable 'OS' in "src/Makefile" or "src64/Makefile". In these files you can also see the possible values. > On which OS is picolisp running currently, I read quite a lot of post > about porting it to other OS here recently. As a general rule, "full" PicoLisp runs only on POSIX systems. Primarily, it runs on Linux. This was the initially supported platform. The 32-bit version also builds and runs under MS-Windows on Cygwin (with some limitations). The Java-version (ErsatzLisp, "ersatz/pil") is special. It doesn't support the '*OS' global, and should run on any system where a 1.6 Java Runtime Environment is installed. ErsatzLisp also has some limitations (see "ersatz/README"). Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
