From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T04:45:49+09:00
Subject: Re: In need of Win32 fcntl (non-blocking)

Ivo Palli wrote:
> Are there any ways to detect the OS btw? If I'm going to run my
script
> on multiple platforms, and I need to workaround, how can I do this
> automatically?
>
> Regards,
>
>    Ivo Palli

If you just need to detect Windows vs Unix, you can use
File::ALT_SEPARATOR.  It's only true on Win32.

If you want a little more detail, you can use the RUBY_VERSION
constant.

If you want a lot more detail, see sys-uname, available on the RAA.
Regards,

Dan