@OS question

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Apr 12 09:10:23 PDT 2004


On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:59:44AM -0400, Howie may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> The customer of mine who is porting his application to Sun is having a
> problem because @OS is not returning "UNIX".
> 
> Since many of his processing tables rely on UNIX or not UNIX the question
> is:  Is there any way to change what @OS returns?

What -is- it currently returning?

IMHO, the proper thing to do is rewrite the offending fP code, not change
fP because someone made faulty assumptions about what would be returned.
It's more time now, but overall more robust and correct.

mark->
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