Hi

You can try read the $^O variable:

print $^O; #Mine is MSWin32.


On 7/18/07, Paco Zarabozo A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Have you tried looking into the %ENV hash in each OS? There are generally
particular keys and/or values that let you know where you are running.

HTH

Paco Zarabozo

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