Re: [MacPerl] Platform checking

[russt@ccnet.com (Russ Tremain)]

Interesting discussion - I've been examining the @INC variable to see which
system i'm on...Does anyone have a general method that will work on dos,
nt, vms, unix, and the mac, that is independent of perl revision?
/russt

>In message <Pine.NXT.3.91.960312172305.7717D-100000@kolob> you write:
>>On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, andyk wrote:
>>> Is it possible to do something like this:
>>>
>>> $cr = "\n";
>>>
>>> if ($cr == "\x0D"){
>>>  $platform = "Mac"
>
>Yes.
>
>>> or is this just a lame idea.
>
>Yes :-)
>
>>Try this instead:
>>
>>if ($^X eq 'MacPerl') ...
>
>Or even better, this:
>
>if ($MacPerl::Version)
>
>The $^X test fails with the WPW tool.
>
>Matthias
>
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