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in thread how to detect whether script is being run on Windows at runtime?

I think all Sys::Hostname does is tell you the hostname of the machine. Doesn't tell you what OS the machine is running.

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Re: Re: Re: how to detect whether script is being run on Windows at runtime?
by jacques (Priest) on May 10, 2004 at 22:00 UTC
    Whoops! My mistake. Try this from usenet: 

    use Config;
$ostype = $Config{"osname"};

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