From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2003-01-07T09:13:03+09:00
Subject: Re: the operating system release



> IMO there is no simple way to find it out.
> I would first test the PLATFORM constant.
> If it is some kind of UNIX you can use
> `uname`
> or the uname module from 
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?> name=sys-uname
> 
> For 
> Windows I don't know.
> 

try "ver"