On Monday 24 December 2001 08:22 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > in perl, how does one go about detecting what operating system the > program is running under?
Try "$^O". > also, when a perl script makes use of a pathname under windows, say, > > open(FP, "/directory/file") or die "Can't open file"; > > do i use `/' or `\'? Probably something like "c:\\directory\\file". -- Rod _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
