From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2003-03-09T20:41:00+09:00
Subject: Re: install.rb problem - ri and rdoc think OS X is windows!


"Dave Thomas" <dave@pragprog.com> wrote in message
news:CE084DEF-51C3-11D7-93A9-000A95676A62@pragprog.com...
>
> On Saturday, Mar 8, 2003, at 17:41 US/Central, Sam Roberts wrote:
>
> > I think this is the problem:
> >
> >   opfile += ".rb" if CONFIG["target_os"] =~ /win/
> >
>
> Aarrgh... my fault.  I'll fix 'em, but... what's canonical way of
> deciding that I'm on a Windows box?

It crashes :-)

Sorry, could not resist - actually I find Win2K fairly stable.

I don't have a good way to detect Windows - but cmd.exe is in the path of
all Windows NT derived systems and command.exe is on all Windows systems.
There is the WINDIR env. variable. and the OS variable probably begins with
Windows. My Win2K and WinXP says  OS=Windows_NT. Env var names should be
tested case-insensitive.

Mikkel