[Haskell-cafe] Detect Either Windows or Linux environment

[SevenThunders]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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Thank you for your help.  I somehow missed that when I was browsing through
the library documentation.
On windows, interestingly the os function returns "mingw"
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