$os-variant

Constant

Summary

Constant specifying which variant of an operating system the current machine is running, where relevant.

Type

Symbol.

Initial value

See Description.

Library

operating-system

Module

operating-system

Description

This constant is a symbol value distinguishing between variants of the operating system identified by $os-name, where relevant; otherwise it has the same value as $os-name. On Windows, the possible values are #"win3.1", #"win95", #"win98", and #"winnt".

See also

$machine-name, page 186

$os-name, page 187

$os-version, page 188

$platform-name, page 189

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System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000