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From: sgarg@ecte.uswc.uswest.com (Sanjay)
Subject: Re: [VW2.0] How I can know the Platform?
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 16:54:58 GMT
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Vadim Sokolovsky (vadim@panix.com) wrote:

: Screen default platformName -  returns the name of the windowing system.
: OSHandle currentOS	    -  returns the name of the OS.

: I believe there is also OSHandle currentPlatform, which returns detailed
: information about the platform VW is running on.

It is OSHandle currentPlatformID. It returns a ByteString containing name
of OS in detail eg 'unix sysV sun solaris' .

Sanjay
