tgruhn@olg.com wrote:
> 
> Had an interesting thought last night: in APL Quote Quad I remember
> a discussion about a function call "whereami", which would determine
> which dialect of APL you were using.
>   Would it be possible to write such a function in PERL? It would
> tell which OS PERL was being run under. If I could determine which
> OS the perl app was run under, could I not then choose a config
> file to run it under that particular OS?

I know that linux has a /proc/version pseudo-file available. I don't
have a running netbsd, but something like /kern/version or /proc/version
(assuming kernfs and/or procfs is mounted) should be available. 

Or try to find the version message in /var/log/dmesg (linux) or the
netbsd equiv.

Alex.