APM: Variable to determine OS

[Dennis Moore]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 06:05:58PM -0500, David Bluestein II wrote:
> Okay, I know I've seen it, but can't remember it. What is the way to
> determine what OS Perl is running on? In particular, I want the script to
> determine if it is running on Windows or LInux, and do a different action
> depending on OS, but I can't remember the trick here.
> 
> David

$^O

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