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Stefan Bellon wrote:
> This approach has one problem: Those environment variables can be set
> by the user, so that the user can fake the setting to select wrong OS
> dependent code.

Absolutely! Though I'm not sure exactly that would acheive as presumably
they would have to fake everything else that followed! :-)

I think this is what "System.Name" was probably orginally intended to
provide but it never quite worked out that way...