[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-08 Thread Gregg Irwin
Thanks Romano! My object browser's sliders sometimes make it hard to get to every item in the list (if it's a long list like system/words), so I missed ctx-prefs. Now, the other question is, does ctx-prefs get turned into an object automatically, and what causes that? I tried a couple quick

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-08 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Gregg, Now, the other question is, does ctx-prefs get turned into an object automatically, and what causes that? I tried a couple quick tests, but it stayed a block. It's easy enough to make an object from the spec, but I'm sure you shouldn't have to. This is where become an object:

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-07 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Gregg There are win? and unix? system words, but I don't know what context they live in to make use of them. ctx-prefs is-win?: does [system/version/4 = 3] is-mac?: does [all [system/version/4 = 2 system/version/5 = 3]] is-unix?: does [not any [is-win? is-mac?]] win?:

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-07 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Romano, On Monday, July 08, 2002, 1:21:49 AM, you wrote: RPT is-unix?: does [not any [is-win? is-mac?]] Oh well, is the Amiga Unix? ;-) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-07 Thread Charles
Hi Romano, On Monday, July 08, 2002, 1:21:49 AM, you wrote: RPT is-unix?: does [not any [is-win? is-mac?]] Oh well, is the Amiga Unix? ;-) EAW - Extend At Will ;) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila --

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-03 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Oldes, does anybody has/know some script for detecting type of operating system rebol is running in? There are win? and unix? system words, but I don't know what context they live in to make use of them. --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-03 Thread Nenad Rakocevic
Hi, switch system/version/4 [ 1 [print I'm on AmigaOS] 2 [print I'm on MacOS] 3 [print I'm on Windows] 4 [print I'm on Linux Libc6] ... ] See http://www.rebol.com/platforms.html for a complete list. HTH, -DocKimbel. Gregg Irwin wrote: Hi Oldes, does anybody

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-03 Thread Anton
Hi Oldes, system/version can tell you. It looks like the platform is encoded into the version tuple at positions four and (usually) five. MS Windows is 3.1 If you go to http://www.rebol.com/view-platforms.html you can see: Microsoft Windows (All) iX86 1.2.1.3.1 view-pro031.zip So a

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-03 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Oldes, RebOldes wrote: Hello rebol-list, does anybody has/know some script for detecting type of operating system rebol is running in? I think the following information will help you. It was snarfed from the REBOL script embedded in http://www.rebol.com/releases.html