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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: How to detect OS type and version?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:04:45 +0200
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Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> writes:

> Roger Blum wrote:
>> Is there a way within Ada (GNAT 3.15p) to tell whether the
>> application is running on Linux or Windows (and the version of the
>> OS)?
>
> There is no single standard why... yet!
>
> I think that you will be able to do this with "package
> Ada.Environment_Variables" come Ada200Y, e.g.
>
> if Ada.Environment_Variables.Exists ("OS")
>     and Ada.Environment_Variables.Value ("OS") = "Windows_NT" then
>     ...
> elsif Ada.Environment_Variables.Exists ("OSTYPE")

He could use GNAT.Os_Lib.Getenv ("OSTYPE")

-- 
Michael Bode