- From: Harold A. Driscoll <harold@driscoll.chi.il.us>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:11:44 -0500
- To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <hoermi@arcormail.de>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
At 06:15 13-05-99 , Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>| I can understand why you might need to use such a hack
>|for the Redmond Kid's operating system wannabees, but
>|would think it much better to make it via a test and hack
>|code, rather than break it for other platforms.
>
>Hm, Perl is ment to be available on many platforms. So
>why not let the Script be compatible on many platforms, too?
No disagreement. Perhaps I was not clear. I'm suggesting something to the
tune of...
Unless ( $ENV{'OS') eq 'Windows_9x' ) {
... existing code ...
}
else {
... code which works on Windows 9x ...
}
Where the test is tweaked to whatever clues Windows 9x gives of its presence.
Safe computing, /Harold
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