[Haskell-cafe] Detect Either Windows or Linux environment

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 5, 2007, at 0:21 , SevenThunders wrote:
> Is there a simple way to detect what operating system a given  
> Haskell program
> is running under?

mress:5002 Z$ ghci
    ___         ___ _
   / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
/ /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.7.20070322, for  
Haskell 98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Prelude> :m +System.Info
Prelude System.Info> [os, arch]
["darwin","powerpc"]
Prelude System.Info>

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