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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-06 20:10:14 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-06 20:10:14 +0000
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Windows wisdom from Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17047
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@@ -1004,10 +1004,10 @@ is identical to C<$Config{'osname'}>. See also L<Config> and the
B<-V> command-line switch documented in L<perlrun>.
In Windows platforms the $^O is not very helpful since it is always
-MSWin32 (or MSWin64, when applicable), it doesn't tell the difference
-between 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE. Use Win32::GetOSVersion() (see L<perlport>)
-and other means (like for example the presence/absence of some files) to
-distinguish those.
+C<MSWin32>, it doesn't tell the difference between 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE.
+Use Win32::GetOSVersion() (see L<perlport>) and other means (like for
+example the presence/absence of some files) to distinguish between
+the variants.
=item ${^OPEN}