Re: [MacPerl] Re: Using NetPresenz and MacPerl

[Todd Smith <todd@bozeman.mbt.washington.edu>]

better yet, 

use English;
print $OSNAME;

is more clear.  

$0 (as in $zero gives the progame name)

$^0 (as in $^Oh not zero gives the OS name).

pretty intuitive too bad O and 0 look the same with 9 pt monaco.

Todd


On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, William Middleton wrote:

> > 
> > >It would be nice if Perl had a portable way to detect the platform that
> > >it is running on.  Maybe there is a good way and I just don't know it.
> 
> $^O
> 
> On a mac:
> 
> print $^O;
> 
> prints: MacOS
> 
> 
> Bill
> 
>