Laurent Bardi writes 23 Sep 1997 20:17:54 +0200: >is there a way to know if we are running on a 68K or a PPC >(with macperl 513 and sys 7.5.5) You could also do this... #!perl use Mac::AppleEvents; $evt = AEBuildAppleEvent('fndr', 'gstl', typeApplSignature, "MACS", 0, 0, "'----':'proc'") or die $^E; $rep = AESend($evt, kAEWaitReply) or die $^E; $cpu = AEPrint(AEGetParamDesc($rep, '----')); print $cpu, "\n"; AEDisposeDesc $evt; AEDisposeDesc $rep; Alan Fry ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch