@OS question
Howie
howiewz at beonthenet.com
Mon Apr 12 11:12:05 PDT 2004
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: <filepro-list at celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: @OS question
| 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->
I believe it is returning "SUN_OS"
Howie
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