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authorPeter Prymmer <PPrymmer@factset.com>2001-02-20 06:51:55 -0800
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-02-21 14:26:02 +0000
commit34aaaa845400abfb74d5e84f98d1d59cdb650982 (patch)
tree1fdc2482f629932d65d8a1b036a9363e014e1065 /pod/perlport.pod
parentb896c7a5a6c831ac6dcdfa1bf97349e5249a98b7 (diff)
downloadperl-34aaaa845400abfb74d5e84f98d1d59cdb650982.tar.gz
[patch perl@8841] One URL update and a possible OS Version snag for perlport.pod
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10102201447380.501692-100000@aspara.forte.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8874
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diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index de2d855ff3..457584c0cb 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -675,6 +675,15 @@ DOSish perls are as follows:
Windows NT MSWin32 MSWin32-ppc
Cygwin cygwin
+The various MSWin32 Perl's can distinguish the OS they are running on
+via the value of the fifth element of the list returned from
+Win32::GetOSVersion(). For example:
+
+ if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
+ my @os_version_info = Win32::GetOSVersion();
+ print +('3.1','95','NT')[$os_version_info[4]],"\n";
+ }
+
Also see:
=over 4
@@ -1225,7 +1234,7 @@ Be OS, F<README.beos>
=item *
HP 300 MPE/iX, F<README.mpeix> and Mark Bixby's web page
-http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/perlix.html
+http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html
=item *