On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Richmond wrote: > The documentation is a bit 'dicky', and on my Linux box "put the machine" > gives me i686 (which presumably is going to be > exactly what "put the machine" would do if the same machine were running > Windows); so, a fat lot of good. > > My macMini PPC gets 'unknown' from "put the machine'; also fairly useless. > > HOWEVER: "put the platform" yields 'Linux' and 'MacOS' respectively; and, > I assume, this should give you 'Windows' or somesuch > for Windows. > > I wonder what the purpose of 'machine' is as it is so obviously incomplete? > > Richmond.
Windows returns "Win32" as the platform (even when running a 64-bit OS). This is probably because the LC engine itself is still 32-bit, and therefore doesn't see the machine beyond it's own encapsulation in 32-bit space. ~Roger _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
