From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2001-11-28T13:24:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26738] RE:  quick question

RUBY_PLATFORM does not give you the actual OS (nt, 98, etc), but the platform 
that the Ruby distro was compiled to which on Win32 could be:

mswin32
mingw32
cygwin

There is not library call to get the actual OS itself.  

It should be easy to write though.

-Rich Kilmer
Clifton, Virginia ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Calco [mailto:rcalco@cortechs.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 11:09 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:26735] quick question
> 
> 
> OK, who knows where this thread will end up, but as long as I get 
> answers to
> the following question, I'll be pleased:
> 
> Is there a way to find out the current OS, a la Python?:
> 
> 	import os
> 	...
> 	if os.name == 'nt':
> 		....
> 
> Bob Calco
> Centreville, Virginia
>