Re: [MacPerl] how to check for machine architecture?

[Kevin van Haaren <kevinv@hockey.net>]

At 1:13 AM +0200 1999/7/4, Axel M. Roest wrote:
>I want my script to run semi-transparently under unix perl or MacPerl. What
>is the preferred way to check on what kind of machine the script is running?
>On unix I have $ENV variables to check, but what do I have on the Mac?
>
>I thought about grepping the output of `pwd` for either : or /, but surely
>there must be a better way?
>
>TIA
>
>
>Axel Roest

built into perl:
$^O (or $OSNAME under use English;)

returns MacOS on MacOS
returns linux on my LinuxPPC R4.1 machine

Kevin

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